This document discusses strategies for promoting productivity and creativity while reducing distraction from digital devices. It begins by outlining some of the negative impacts of excessive smartphone and social media use, such as only spending 2% of time creating and feeling constantly distracted. It then provides several solutions, including tracking app and screen time usage, creating boundaries by turning off notifications and scheduling email checks, focusing on one task at a time using the Pomodoro technique, reducing consumption by deleting unneeded apps or social media accounts, and collaborating with others on creative projects. The overall message is that digital technologies should serve our goals of learning, creating and problem-solving rather than distracting or limiting us.
18. The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil
We won’t experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century
— it will be more like
20,000 years of progress.
19. The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil
We won’t experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century
— it will be more like
20,000 years of progress.
50. THE COMMON SENSE CENSUS:
MEDIA USE BY TWEENS AND TEENS
2019
AMOUNT OF DAILY SCREEN USE
NOT INCLUDING FOR SCHOOL OR HOMEWORK
TWEENS:
4 hours, 44 minutes
TEENS:
7 hours, 22 minutes
61. 1.On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch,
go to Settings > Screen Time.
2.Tap Turn On Screen Time.
3.Tap Continue.
4.Select This is My [device] or This is
My Child's [device].
Screen Time
70. The Digital Declutter
STEP #1:
DEFINE YOUR TECHNOLOGY RULES
STEP #2:
TAKE A THIRTY-DAY BREAK
STEP #3:
REINTRODUCE TECHNOLOGY
71. It is not just about time away from
technology.
Instead, you must aggressively explore
higher-quality activities to fill in the
time left vacant by the optional
technologies you are avoiding.
This period should be one of strenuous
activity and experimentation.
74. “When people think
they're multitasking,
they're actually just
switching from one task
to another very rapidly.
And every time they do,
there's a cognitive cost."
Earl Miller
MIT neuroscientist
78. Multitasking comes with a biological
cost that ends up making us feel
tired much more quickly than if we
sustain attention on one thing.
Daniel Levitin
79. Daniel Levitin
“People eat more, they take more caffeine. Often what you really need in that
moment isn’t caffeine, but just a break. If you aren’t taking regular breaks
every couple of hours, your brain won’t benefit from that extra cup of coffee.”
108. The
Artist
Seeing beauty,
creating beauty.
The
Thinker
Deep thoughts,
big questions.
The
Adventurer
So much
inspiration, so
little time.
The
Maker
Committed to
your craft.
The
Producer
Process is
power.
The
Dreamer
The power of
imagination
unleashed.
The
Innovator
Move, shake,
disrupt, repeat.
The
Visionary
Imagining the
impossible.