{"id":782,"date":"2010-06-07T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:53:03","slug":"your-brain-on-computers-attached-to-technology-and-paying-a-price-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/06\/07\/your-brain-on-computers-attached-to-technology-and-paying-a-price-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Your Brain on Computers – Attached to Technology and Paying a Price – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think everyone has a choice.<\/p>\n

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One of the choices people are NOT making anymore is to spend time pondering.<\/p>\n

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If you don’t keep balance in your life, then various skills are lost. There is this fallacy that we are wasting time if we don’t fill it with something “productive”. Since we can’t actually do that, we fill in the spaces with FB, reading email, surfing around, and other largely random activities.<\/p>\n

I spend 6-10 hours\/day on the computer. BUT: I also spend time outside, often alone (except for the critters). I have spent countless hours sitting and watching animals, and I can finish a novel on a 6-hour flight.<\/p>\n

I tried both of those two tests linked in the article – test your focus & test how fast you switch tasks…. I got a perfect score on the focus test and missed one on the switching test but I was slower than both groups. (btw the focus test is non-verbal and the switching test is verbal – that also makes a difference).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n