Nov 23, 2022
Constant Distraction Challenges Your Thinking Space - Four Ways to Recapture Focus
Recently, I read the book The Inevitable – Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly. The book describes ways technology forces will change lives and includes these “verbs” - becoming, cognifying, flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, interacting, tracking, questioning, and beginning.
Kelly notes the ways that reading has changed and said we should call this new activity screening rather than reading. Neurological studies show that learning to read changes the brains circuitry. Instead of skipping around distractedly gathering bits, when you read you are transported, focused, immersed… One can spend hours reading on the web and never encounter this literature space. One gets fragments, threads, glimpses. Doesn’t screening sound like an operations leader’s day —fragments, threads, and glimpses that happen each moment?
