Jim KwikFounder, Kwik Brain · Brain Coach

Suffering from Digital Dementia? | Jim Kwik

2 Oct 2022 · 0 min

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Jim Kwik warns about digital dementia, the loss of cognitive abilities from over-relying on smartphones. He describes ten people at dinner pulling out phones to split a check, unable to do basic math. Your brain is a muscle: if you don't use it, you lose it.

I went to dinner the other night and it was 10 of us, literally 10 of us. The waiter comes with the check. Half of the 10 people pulled out their phones to divide the check by 10. If people are listening to this, they don't understand why that's a problem, then that's the problem. That's the problem. Right? Your brain is like a muscle. It's use it or lose it. But people are suffering from digital dementia. This is the new term in healthcare. Digital dementia. Digital dementia, where we're so dependent on our smart devices that we're not using this technology anymore.