Your brain was not built for this

Do you ever feel like you're drowning in information? That's digital deluge. It's the overwhelming flood of data we face daily. How do you combat that? You filter and you focus. You don't try to consume everything. Instead, you prioritize and you ask yourself, what truly deserves my attention? How many times a day do you check your phone? It's really hard to focus. So the combat strategy is single-tasking. The brain functions best when it focuses on one thing at a time. Digital dementia is is the high reliance on our digital devices making us forget basic things. So the combat strategy is mindful memory. With search engines at our fingertips, we often kind of skip the thinking process, and the combat strategy is how do you pause before you go online? Sometimes you have to disconnect to be able to reconnect. Reconnect with yourself, reconnect with your body, reconnect with your mind. You want to use technology, you don't want technology using you.