Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains, Or Is It

I have to admit, sometimes I do find myself overwhelmed by email, text messages, and the like. The solution is simple, I tend to have a 1hour break to get things like that done and use the rest of my free time to get things done. This article might be very relevant for investors fighting the urge to spend time tracking tickers and performing low value activities.

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Article Introduction (Via Wired Magazine)

In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Jackson explores the effects of “our high-speed, overloaded, split-focus and even cybercentric society” on attention. It’s not a pretty picture: a never-ending stream of phone calls, e-mails, instant messages, text messages and tweets is part of an institutionalized culture of interruption, and makes it hard to concentrate and think creatively.

Of course, every modern age is troubled by its new technologies. “The telegraph might have done just as much to the psyche [of] Victorians as the Blackberry does to us,” said Jackson. “But at the same time, that doesn’t mean that nothing has changed. The question is, how do we confront our own challenges?”

Article Excerpts (Via Wired Magazine)

1. Click Here To Read The Article On How Digital Overload is Overwhelming Our Lives

2. Click Here To Read A Counter Point To The Article (Via Mind Hacks—I recommend reading this)