Why smartphones are just as harmful as cigarettes

Every year we become attached to gadgets all the stronger, though, and refuse to admit it. Every minute, the need for a smartphone - it's just another bad habit, and it has its price.

Smartphones are destroying our attention

Clogging of attention - this is when we distract someone else's inability to focus on what is happening. The inability of others to focus on the important endangers our own focus, the already shaky.

Like passive smokers suffer from someone else's tobacco smoke, we suffer from the damaging effects of foreign smartphones to our attention.

We get distracted and forget that what had just meditated and that worried. That's why we hurt when someone from home to stick his phone at dinner. That's why we internally boils at a glowing screen in a dark theater room. That's why we get annoyed when, during an interesting match someone in a nearby chair starts scribbling SMS.

These people pollute our attention. We are so passionately lived this moment here and now, together with his family, the heroes of the movie or your favorite team while they are in front of us did not have got in his alternate reality!

You can continue the analogy with smoking. Smoker is ruining their health in the future for the sake of a few intoxicating whiffs in the present and constant bursts of dopamine caused by huskies, Fortress and other short-term promotions network, in the long term can lead to malfunction brain.

Try to sit down and a couple of hours to write an essay in school. Most likely, you do not meet in the allotted time. And it's not even that became more distractions.

Our ability to resist stimuli weakened so much that we almost forgot how to control your attention, even when we do not interfere.

Some believe that to be a good and responsible employee - means to be in touch and stay informed at any moment. No matter when: during the performance of the child on morning or at a traffic light, or on the night from Saturday to Sunday.

This is reminiscent of the old electronic game with a wolf who catches eggs: it seems that you need to catch every piece of information, otherwise you lose. But no one thinks, and what, in fact, win.

We are squandering our attention in pursuit of information, not because it makes us smarter, awareness or professional, but because these are the rules of the game. So it is accepted.

Most worryingly, blurred focus becomes a social norm. We are accustomed and resigned to the fact that we ourselves and the people around us and then drop out of reality.

Why you should quit

Remove the phone away if:

• you forget what it is - enjoy full live communication without "smoke breaks" in the Network;
• you dearly, not only their own attention to what is happening, but also the attention of others. Do not ruin the charm of the moment;
• you want a smartphone simplified your life, rather than replace it. Stop continuously pass through a huge flow of information, because sooner or later it will have to pay for your brain;
• You agree that your attention - is a precious resource that must be protected;
• you do not want your growing inattentiveness jeopardized relationships with loved ones.

Release the phone from his hands. Advertised freedom of communication as far from freedom, as the lungs of the smoker from the lungs of a healthy person.