One must make a new brain groove to break a habit. This is also another reason it is hard to break a habit. When we practice a skill, learn a sport, or study facts, a little trench is carved into our brain tissue. Let’s see how we all stack up.įrom studying the brain, scientists have found that repeated thoughts and mental or physcial actions (like texting, reading, speaking, running, etc.) actually create physical grooves in the brain, not just faster neuron pathways. Nevertheless, beyond the silliness, the point stands: What we do and think thoroughly (mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically) changes us. Okay, I just made all that up about the test answers. 48 hours with no technology seems quite unlikely, or basically a bad idea.ġ or more YES answers mean your thought patterns (and your actual physical grey matter) is being altered by the “cooperation with technology.” So, basically you could be “less human” than you were just a short while ago. You’d contemplate enhancing your brain with extra RAM or flash memory, (if it were possible.)*ġ0. (Maybe-just now-you were checking on the news, email, or something, and whoops here you are taking this test, ’cause, “heck, it’ll only take a minute!”)ĩ. If you set out to do something, and get online, or start texting, you tend to get distracted from your original task or objective.
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You like to change channels on the tv a lot, and you bounce from thing to thing online, at work, and at home.ħ.
(Like right now, for instance, you might even have to concentrate to remember why you wanted to take this self-test in the first place).Ħ. Your short term memory seems to be suffering. You have trouble sleeping at few times per week.ĥ. (Finishing this self-test even seems like a challenge at this point.)Ĥ. You have a short attention span, which has gotten shorter. You have extraordinarily strong thumbs compared to an Amish person.*ģ. You spend more than two hours a day interacting with/using technology.Ģ. (Let’s just say, I like to insert humor, and yet be an insightful resource for you. The ones with “*” are just made up for the sake of humor. 10 Signs your brain is changing because of technology (computer, internet, twitter, facebook, texting, iPhone, iPad, DS, etc.)
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