Recently, a “special survey on brain obesity in the workplace” published by a large recruitment website yesterday showed that nearly 70% of white-collar workers have the problem of “brain obesity”.
According to the survey, 60% (58.5%) of workers use computers for more than 5 hours a day due to work needs, most of which are about 8 hours, and nearly 10% (9.3%) of workers use computers for more than 10 hours a day. Facing computers at work, nearly 50% (43.8%) of workers still use computers for 1 to 3 hours a day after work, and 35.5% use computers at home for more than 3 hours. More than half of them said they handed in more than 11 hours to the computer every day. At work, are you attracted by the news, phone calls or new emails that pop up suddenly every time, and then turn to pay attention to other things? Unfortunately, this is the typical white-collar “brain obesity”. Survey data show that nearly 70% of white-collar workers often forget their jobs and are busy caring about other people’s microblogs, the latest events or gossiping with old friends through chat tools.
When your concentration is interrupted, how long does it take to regain it? 46.0% said that they could concentrate immediately after handling the emergency; 32.0% said that once their attention was interrupted, it would take a long time to regain concentration.
Experts say that distraction is an epidemic and a cognitive “obesity”, which may unknowingly destroy the productive thoughts of an entire generation.
the human brain is degenerating.
Professor Gary small is a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley. His research topic is the impact of digital technology on human brain and behavior.
He believes that the function of the brain has changed more in the past 20 years than in the past thousands of years. The significance of digital technology for brain evolution can be compared with that of human ancestors who first learned to use tools 300000 years ago.
A Stanford University study found that spending one hour in front of the computer reduces the time for face-to-face communication with others by nearly 30 minutes. People’s social skills will become clumsy and often misinterpret or even ignore subtle non-verbal information.
The brains of young “digital natives” are developing new neural wiring for high-speed Internet search and Internet social networking. Their minds react faster and adapt to the culture of information overload and multitasking. They can have 34 conversations with 6 different media at the same time, and some video games can also improve their peripheral visual ability. However, at the same time, their empathy and complex reasoning functions are deteriorating.
Scientists are worried that while people gain speed and breadth of information, they are also losing something of far-reaching significance, such as the ability to think deeply, to concentrate, to communicate face-to-face, to be alone, and not to be stimulated
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