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COPING WITH A …
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Stop! My brain has too many
tabs open.
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
First PointWe are overwhelmed
with Notification Distractions.
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Notification Distractions
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Notification DistractionsBeepsChirpsTweetsBuzzes
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Robinson MeyerTechnology Reporter for
The Atlantic
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“Our results suggest that mobile phones can disrupt attention performance even if one does not interact with the device.
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“As mobile phones become more integrated into more and more tasks it may become increasingly difficult for people to set their phones aside and concentrate fully on the task at hand…”
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“If people are genuinely distracted by notification-induced thoughts, some problematic mobile phone use could be prompted by the desire to escape that feeling,”
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Dr. David GreenfieldPsychologist
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"The analogy that I use is right before they go to bed, the last thing they do before they pass out is check their phone and the minute they open their eyes, they check their phone, Doesn't that sound like a smoker?”
Dr. David Greenfield
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Psalm 461God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, 3though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
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Psalm 466 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
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Psalm 4610“Be still, and know that I am God.I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth!”11The LORD of hosts is with us;the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Psalm 119:148
My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may
meditate on your promise.
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Second Point
The Pressure of E-Tyrannical Urgency
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Tyranny of the Urgent“There is a regular tension
between things that are urgent and things that are important — and far too often, the urgent wins.”
Charles Hummel
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Exodus 1817b “What you are doing is not good. 18 You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone.
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Mark 135 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.
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Mark 136 Later Simon and the others went out to find him. 37 When they found him, they said, “Everyone is looking for you.”
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
It’s been 5 minutes since I sent that text.
FIVE. WHOLE. MINUTES.
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Facebook says you’re awake. Why haven’t you returned my call
yet!
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
I wrote you 3 times. Why haven’t you
answered my email?
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
“Frequently using a smartphone contributes to a blurring of the boundaries between work and leisure time.”
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“It can lead to increased productivity, but that is often achieved at the cost of higher stress levels and lower employee satisfaction which in the long run can lead to impaired performance.”
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Third Point
Too Many Balls in the Air
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
The Myth of Multi-Tasking
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Dr. JoAnn DeakAuthor of
“Your Fantastic Elastic Brain”
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
“We’re creating a generation of minds who have extreme difficulty dealing with long-term input… Anything that
isn’t multitasking is perceived as boring.”
Dr. JoAnn Deak
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
2 Timothy 1:7ESV
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
KJVFor God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Philippians 3 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Coping with a Culture of Distraction
Proverbs 25:28
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left
without walls.
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