Technological dependence: you already addicted, and what to do
Productivity Relations / / December 19, 2019
XXI century is very fast burst into our lives and brought the rapid development of computer technology and everything connected with them. We are accustomed to the fact that all of our phones and important contacts stored in the phone, computers, new laptop and other portable gadgets. We fully rely on technology, we are dependent on it. Calculate how much you have computers at home, monitors, telephones! Lot? Phones certainly more than the number of people in your family, and your PC certainly at everyone.
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Why are we so dependent on modern technology and everything connected with them?
Problem
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Did you know that some video games give impetus to highlight dopamine in the brain? Recall that as dopamine is released when having sex and eating things that are considered necessary for the survival of the human species. A vicious circle - games give impetus to highlight dopamine, and dopamine - it's something like pleasure hormone (his narcotic analogues - amphetamine, methamphetamine, ephedrine), respectively, later again want to get pleasure from the game and we again We sit down to play.
But dopamine is released not only when we play video games. Exactly the same effect is e-mail verification. Count how many times a day do you check your mailbox, even if there is nothing particularly important? This is especially true of beeps that accompany the receipt of a new message. You do not know whether this is an important message, but still itching to see what there is it, even if it is a regular spam. It obtained directly dependent on signals and to mind the experiments of Pavlov dogs.
While there were only desktop computers, the problem was not so big. But as soon as there were laptops, netbooks, smart phones and various electronic gadgets such as iPad, things got much worse, because now you check your email (Twitter, facebook, vkontakte - underline) is not only at home but also in transport, in cafes, on a picnic, anywhere there is internet access. And now here it is possible to add on the mobile Internet and WiFi.
Information overload
Now we recycle three times more information than it was 50 years ago. And it is becoming more and more. If earlier for printing books had to exert a lot of effort and time, now it is enough to sit down at the computer and put it in the net. Now just write, not only writers, journalists and various public figures, and all who know how to read and write. Accordingly, the filter is now necessary to more thoroughly and much larger amounts of information. And despite all this, we can not spend three days quietly without prochitki news (especially those related to the world of technology), because we are afraid that something lose and do not make up. As said the Red Queen from "Alice in Wonderland" - "In this world, my love, to stay in place, you need to escape, but in order to move, you need to run even faster."
technological etiquette
In the past few years, "pocket" Soup updated with great speed. Is it right to scribble even short post to twitter while sitting behind the wheel? I think no. But some still do that. Likewise, it would not be very polite sitting in the company of friends bury into your smartphone and read there a feed, or check e-mail. Remember that you are not obliged to answer all messages immediately. Yes, there are times when it's an emergency, but still reach the hands to check and respond. Remarkably, when this is good news - positive share with friends, if all this is not very nice, then you not only do not rest from work, but also spoil the mood of those around you people.
Decision
So what do we do to stop constantly staring at the screen and not to spend weekends and evenings for the prefix, and finally start to see and hear the world around us and the people?
Out of sight, out of mind
A common scenario: you pull the phone out of his pocket to check the time, at the same time begin to check their e-mail, it pulls the answering letters, etc. As a result, a simple and short operation "check time" is transformed into a set of operations that takes just 5 More time. If you pulled the phone to see the time, try to do just that and no more. If you keep quite difficult from the e-mail scanning - wear on the hand watch.
You - not a machine to perform multiple tasks simultaneously
This does not mean that we should now all things to do separately. Listening to your favorite tracks while running can also be attributed to multi-task, but it is encouraged. But the attempt to simultaneously watch the transmission of TV or a movie and performing at the time the work is not very welcome. You can not concentrate properly at work and miss the fun in the transmission. In the end, the combination of constant cases will lead to the fact that you simply will not be able to properly focus only on one thing. As a consequence, the work is not as high quality for a long period of time will be executed. It also may include work on the computer on the project and the simultaneous scanning of messages in the messenger, twitter and social networks. For the experiment, try turning off all the excess and focus only on work. I think it will take half the time, what with the included open social networks and messengers.
Never apologize
How often do you apologize that we could not pick up the phone, because I went to the subway / walking with a child / doing in the gym? First, you You do not have to apologize for something that was not available during off-hours. Secondly, it shows your dependence respond to messages immediately. Stop apologizing. You - the person simply can not be able to do everything at once. Allow yourself the luxury of responding to a message when you have the opportunity and the mood for this. Of course, this does not mean that you can safely ignore letters from clients during working hours. Otherwise, people are not very true feeling may be that you can respond to calls and emails on any day and time of day.
Organize your time
Usually we are talking more about the organization of their time, than actually doing it. Start with the mail! Many email clients offer you very convenient for this business tools (folders, shortcuts, etc.). «Priority Inbox"Google's will be very useful for sharing your message to just" important "or" very important. " At the moment, there is only a beta-version is not available for everyone.
In any case, weaning, always and everywhere to be inseparable with their devaysa and stay long without communication is not painless. Get ready, you will in any case breaking and slight panic that you missed something. But it's worth it. You will feel much freer and the state of "always-on connection" gives only apparent freedomActually tying us firmly to the art and places of "residence" of the Internet.
I propose to conduct an experiment and to share the results! To begin, minimize the amount of e-mail scanning or turn off all the messengers during the performance of work (if do not need these same messengers, of course) to her - how many commonly perform and dropped it time after blackout?