Nobody checks their phones anymore............
From The FT
If you
are an American aged under 25, then much of your social life probably consists
of sitting around with your friends sending messages to absent friends. You
will sometimes even message people sitting next to you. You rarely do one thing
uninterrupted for as long as three minutes. You never experience boredom,
uninterrupted conversation or even solitude — because the moment you are alone,
you turn to your phone. And young Americans are merely extreme cases. Most of
us have these dysfunctions. …………….
Living like this has
consequences. Starved of conversations, many young people struggle to develop
empathy, says Turkle. Their friendships become superficial. And their minds
don’t wander into creative thought, because the instant they scent boredom they
turn to their phones. Solitude thus becomes a problem to be solved.
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Simon Kuper from the FT
I don't know what is going to happen to this generation that don't mind to be interrupted anytime by anything. Perhaps it's an advantage to be able to multitask. One of the biggest & best football managers of all times Jorge Mendes (yes from CR7) has 3 phones and is constantly speaking with their players like a baby sitter during all day even when having lunch with anyone. He is always available to his players.
On the other spectrum I had a boss that never was interrupted, he left the cell phone to the secretary and once or twice a day he run's call's to everybody on the list. He doesn't use a computer or check emails (The secretary does). He does meetings, asks questions and reads. He had very good results. When i was with him i had 100% of his attention.
My view is that to do well in life you need focus, big focus and undivided attention.Hard problems are difficult to solve sometimes you need to obsess many hours/days to solve them. If you are jumping from this to that eventually you will never solve hard problems.
I want to live in a world like this one described by Simon Kuper
I see how this works in Paris, where I live, where it’s still possible to have a three-hour dinner with friends during which nobody checks their phone, except discreetly on toilet visits
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