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Personality Changes

By: David Werdiger
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Aug 9
1 min read
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Let me show you how to live a better life WITH techMy handwriting has gone to pot because I barely do it any more

Ditto for mental arithmetic and facts

After all, the entire body of human knowledge is now in my pocket!

Our brains are like a muscle … the bits we don’t use will atrophy

The latest report from @John Burn-Murdoch in the FT makes for scary reading

Aspects of our personality have changed dramatically in the past 10 years

This has affected all age cohorts, most of all younger people – “digital natives”

The timing correlates with the mobile phone age.

That’s the bad news.

The good news?

Our brains are like a muscle … we can choose to strengthen those parts that we want.

We can revert some of these changes.

How? I’ve been taking a break from tech for a whole day every week – the Sabbath – for my entire life (even before mobile phones existed)

As a child, I found Sabbath restrictive.

As an adult, I realised it was freedom.

Instead of your life being worse BECAUSE of tech …

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