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Breakpoint

Want to Feel Superhuman?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Instead of letting social media notifications, games, and texts control your schedule, keep those activities to pre-allotted time slots. Be physically present with people.

Transcript

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0:00.0

With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.4

If you find your mind darting from one thing to the next, struggling to concentrate for short periods of time,

0:08.9

there are two things to know. First, you're not alone. Second, it's probably related to technology. In an article published at

0:15.8

Motherboard, Cayley Rogers described her experiment banning all screens from her home for an entire month.

0:21.4

No TV, tablet, smartphones, computers. The results were not only dramatic, but unlike with exercise and dieting, almost immediate. She experienced better concentration, found more time in the day felt closer in relationships,

0:32.6

gained a renewed sense of creativity.

0:34.8

A Facebook commenter who conducted the same experiment

0:37.5

described an almost superhuman focus and productivity.

0:41.0

Screens have profoundly shaped our lives, especially our minds and our relationships. and games and text to control our schedules and attention we have to control them

0:53.8

and make time for relationships concentration and creativity that's a pretty easy way to

0:58.9

be superhuman for the Colston, I'm John Stone Street.

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