Jim Kwik explains digital dementia: how relying on phones and apps weakens memory. People used to memorize dozens of phone numbers. Now we struggle to remember PINs, passcodes, and names.
digital dementia. And this is a term in healthcare that says because of the high reliance on technology, we don't have to remember hardly anything. How many of you growing up used to know a lot of— how many phone numbers did you know growing up? How many? A ton, right? Dozens, right? You still remember some of those numbers, right? But how many current numbers do you know today? 3. That's a lot, right? And I don't want to memorize 500 phone numbers, right? But it should be concerning we've lost the ability to remember one or a PIN number or a passcode or a seed phrase, right? Or something somebody just told us, right? Or conversation, what we're going to or somebody's name.
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