Barricading Attention: 21st Century Brain Melt
Overview
The world is Always-on, Perma-Available, incessantly distracted. It's Time to fight back! In this lesson you'll learn how to protect your attention by eliminating 21st century brain melt, annihilate distraction & interruption, and optimise your technology for flow.
Action Steps
Lesson Tools
1. Self Control
SelfControl is a free and open-source application for macOS that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet.
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Lesson Resources
Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform - Edward Hallowell
Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks.
Measuring the effects of interruptions on task performance in the user interface
- Getting a Grip on Drinking Behavior: Training Working Memory to Reduce Alcohol Abuse - Katrijn Houben, Reinout W. Wiers, Anita Jansen, 2011
- A decade of digital dependency
Rabbit Holes
Taking Control of Your Distracted Mind | by Adam Gazzaley MD, PhD | Thrive Global
Peter Diamandis | The Future Is Faster Than You Think | Global Summit 2018 | Singularity University
- "The Future Is Faster Than You Think" Peter Diamandis + Steven Kotler
The Distracted Mind - 19th Distinguished Lecture on Brain, Learning and Memory - Dr. Adam Gazzaley
Flow experience and the mobilization of attentional resources
TEDxSanJoseCA - Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD - Brain: Memory and Multitasking
- Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem
"Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life” by Nir Eyal, Julie Li
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Drawn to distraction: A qualitative study of off-task use of educational technology
- Device-Free Time Is as Important as Work-Life Balance
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