Attention Deficit Crisis Solutions

Aug 15, 2018

I can run my business from wherever I want, and so a few years ago I moved my business to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for its amazing beauty and strong culture. And for its lower density of people. Where I had lived in California was just getting too busy with so many people that they were becoming numb to each other. Being a successful technology hub didn’t help draw people in Northern California closer. Rather, everyone was buried in their cell phone screens. This is true almost everywhere these days.

Well, I succeeded in finding a low density place to live. And a place where screen time is less of a factor. In fact, there are many parts of New Mexico without cell or data access. That’s true even on major state roads just a few miles outside of Santa Fe (the capital city of New Mexico). On one of those roads with no cell service, a new restaurant just opened and the owners decided not to provide Wi-Fi to their customers. Their reason? They said they wanted their customers to talk to each other, not to get buried in their phone or computer screens. And the restaurant is now wildly successful, it’s become the social center of that region.

This is an example of proactive steps more and more people are taking to undo the technology-driven attention deficit crisis, which is becoming epidemic.

Here is a full article about that topic and the solutions that are being rolled out, It is an interesting article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/style/how-can-i-focus-better.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

Michael