Infomagical Challenge 4: Magical Connection

Note to Self

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🗓️ 4 February 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Discuss something you’ve heard, read, or watched with someone for at least seven minutes, by phone or in person. Social psychologist Sherry Turkle explains why and how. More details here: http://wny.cc/XUksG

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0:00.0	They picked up the phone and called someone.
0:05.8	They talked face to face and guess what?
0:09.2	People really enjoyed it.
0:10.8	Well, so there's two things that we should talk about.
0:12.8	As a whole family, we ended up talking about that.
0:15.6	We live in a well-connected network.
0:18.0	And for that network to function, we need to talk to each other.
0:20.8	Talk to each other.
0:21.7	Talk to each other.
0:22.8	Talk to each other.
0:23.8	It's note to self, and this is day four of Info Magical Challenge Week.
0:32.9	I'm Anou Shemaroti, and congratulations for making it this far.
0:36.9	If you're new here, hello!
0:38.4	Thousands of us have been testing ways to make information overload disappear by focusing
0:44.7	on our personal information goal.
0:47.4	And some participants are indeed starting to feel the life-changing magic of saying no
0:53.1	to information overload and yes to focus.
0:57.8	During my son's orchestra concert at school tonight, when the woman in front of me was
1:01.7	taking pictures and posting them to Facebook.
1:04.2	Even though it took about half the day to really kind of get into it, I made myself focus
1:10.2	on being at school, taking in the landscape of it.
1:13.4	But I just spent the time enjoying listening to my son's concert.
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