This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

College is expensive.

You're paying $200 an hour to be there, and you use technology to help because you've used it since you were two, and it's melded into your brain on a biochemical level.

You are pretty much the Borg.

But, you know all that great tech that's supposed

to make your mind superhuman? It actually doesn't. In fact, it makes you feel like a superhuman

while your brain slowly atrophies and you end up at a disadvantage in both college and in the

real world. So if you don't make sure to develop your brain the right way, you will miss opportunity.

You'll fail over

and over and die in a gutter smelling of cheap bourbon. Fortunately, however, you're listening

to this podcast, and in just five minutes we'll change all of that so that you can tone down

the technology and pump up the human achievement. Take intern M.G. Please, take intern M.G.

M.G. is the practically perfect college student in almost every way. He checks his

syllabi by smartphone. He takes notes on laptop, emails his assignments, and is sure that

he's racking up perfect grades. He's headed for a 4.0 GPA as relentlessly as a convertible

full of frat boys during spring break heads towards a case

of Natty Light. Or so he thinks. Then he gets his mid-semester report, and he got an A-minus in

perfectionism 101. While he's working through it with his therapist, let's you and I review what he did

wrong. Despite his great habits at work, MG's tech works against him at

school. In lectures, he half pays attention and he kind of half-surfs the web, or his phone,

or his watch, or his Fitbit. He raises his hand for class participation, but his comments often

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