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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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A friend who observes the Sabbath said something to me recently that hasn't left my head:

"A day without the phone is better than a holiday with it."

No notifications. No scrolling. No half-presence while your mind is somewhere else. Just one day, fully here.

We spend so much

The biggest mistake in succession planning?

Assuming the baton can be handed off when the time comes.

Great transitions happen long before the handoff.

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