Tag: Focus

hand of woman holding pen with writing on paper report in office

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Peter Biles
Date
July 22, 2024

Categorized
Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, brain, ChatGPT, Focus, Handwriting, LLMs, Neuroscience, Technology, Writing}

Study: Writing by Hand is Good for the Brain. What Does that Say About ChatGPT?

_{Nothing can replace pen and paper} _{Peter Biles
July 22, 2024

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Arts & Culture}

It might be time to get the pens and notebooks back out and shut off the keyboard for a while. Just pretend you’re back in the first grade and don’t have a minicomputer in your back pocket. Writing by hand can help stimulate the whole brain and stave off cognitive decline, according to a study by Van der Weel and Van der Meer (2024), as reported by Pamela B. Rutledge in Psychology Today. Using a more personal note, she writes, I’ve never been one to keep a journal, but I now wonder if the exclusive use of computers and the lack of handwriting practice is doing my brain a disservice by decreasing the activity of cortico-subcortical components of the writing Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
November 1, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture

Tagged
Distraction, fiction, Focus, internet, Literature, Psychology Today, social media}

Reading in the Digital Age

_{Writer Joseph Epstein argues compellingly on behalf of the novel.} _{Peter Biles
November 1, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

Reading isn't instantly gratifying the way these dopamine-inducing technologies are, but the rewards are worth it. Read More ›

Young anxious woman lying in bed staring at smartphone screen at night, reading about depression symptoms in internet, phone addicted female can not stop scrolling news media before bedtime. Anxiety.

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Peter Biles
Date
September 4, 2023

Categorized
Addiction

Tagged
addiction, Cal Newport, dopamine, Focus, social media, Work, YouTube}

Cal Newport: Overstimulation Is Ruining Your Life

_{Turns out the solution is simple: don't use things that overstimulate you.} _{Peter Biles
September 4, 2023

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Addiction}

"Don't use things that cause overstimulation," Newport says. "The dopamine system is powerful, so don't give it the targets it's going to fire up for." Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
January 20, 2023

Categorized
Social Media, Spirituality

Tagged
Contemplation, Distraction, Focus, LinkedIn, religion, social media, Tech, Wired}

Do You Struggle to Focus? Medieval Monks Did Too

_{New book shows how ancient monks fought distraction and what they can teach us today} _{Peter Biles
January 20, 2023

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Social Media, Spirituality}

While the battle against constant distraction might seem like a new problem posed by our diffuse technologies, a new book from Jamie Kreiner argues that the struggle is perennial. The book is The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction. Kreiner takes the problem of distraction and puts it into the hands of the religious recluses of late antiquity. It turns out they had a lot to say. Like us, they struggled to maintain vigorous work routines. They courted the opinions of other monks and writers on what a modern-day LinkedIn guru would call “workflow” or “hustle.” In short, they were not so different from us. In his review of the book for Wired, Matt Reynolds writes, Early Read More ›