Self discipline - Taming the lazy monkey Every morning I have a freezing cold shower‚ why? Because part of my mind says ’Don’t do it‚ it’s just stupid’ and that same part of my mind give’s lots of different reasons not to do it. Each morning I fight that inner voice and discipline it to accept that I am taking a freezing cold shower. I believe there are benefits to having a cold shower which is why I started the discipline in the first place. Self discipline is a skill and once you get to grips
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mastery of flight to the creation of the remote control. Technology has innovated our lives and brought us up in a society that’s entirely dependent on automation and instant gratification. We have become subordinate to technology and have been conditioned to be reliant on our own creation. Technology has made our generation lazy and dependent. Technology has integrated itself into every second of our lives. We are products of technology. Our brains are have been rewired to adapt this new‚ automated
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The SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON In the book I read‚ The Swiss Family Robinson‚ the family was ship wrecked on an island. Their boat was made of wood. Nowadays boats are made of metal and have radar or other tracking devices on board. Instead of leather masts we have giant motor propelled rudders and jets. Instead of just transportation today boats are used for pleasure‚ or even marriages. They have boats with big swimming pools‚ dining areas‚ tennis courts and even the movie theaters on-board. Many years
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Sydney Galligan “Is Google Making Us Stupid” 500 Word Response Carr uses a very effective method while writing his persuasive essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr clearly explains how he is in favor of how the Internet is making us thing and how the Internet is making us think differently. Carr pulls from various credible sources such as professors and studies in order to back up his theory on the Internet. Carr opens with an example from Space Odyssey and ends on the same example‚ which
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Most people say that technology has positive effects on everyone because it helps everyone with homework and other resources like for example using Google. But there are a lot of negative effects like poor grades and addiction because of wasted time on the computer. Also we are relying on the internet to find our work and we are not learning anything. Over the years technology could have more positive effects but for now negative effects are outnumbering the positive effects. According to the experts
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Is Google Making Us Dumb? Nicholas Carr makes his point‚ Google is making us dumb‚ very clear. Carr noticed it himself. He realizes that his mind works differently when it comes to reading. Carr can’t focus on lengthy articles. After two or three lines his mind drifts away from the article and his mind tries to find something else to do. He says that this all happened from looking for information on the internet for over a decade‚ reading emails‚ scanning headlines‚ reading blog posts
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In Nicholas Carr’s article‚ Is Google Making Us Stupid?‚ Carr asserts his belief that because of the huge supply of information on the internet‚ the internet is causing our brains to adjust to reading‚ making it difficult to focus on the information and read deeply. Carr explains his belief by providing us with multiple experiences across the web by bloggers and researchers who have begun to study online habits‚ stating that they have noticed that they skim articles online‚ going to hyperlinks
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? 500 words response "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr illustrates to me that the internet is slowing down the development of our brain. I agree with his argument that technology has affected out attention span‚ he sets an example of how we now cannot concentrate on the readings‚ Scott Karp‚ and Bruce Friedman‚ both agree that their ability to read long articles has been affected by the web. Also‚ I agree with Carr that we are becoming low thinking people
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SMARTPHONES COULD BE MAKING US DUMBER Mobile phones nowadays have been taking over our society so much‚ that we can’t even live without it. Even children have a smart phone today‚ is it right at this age to have one? What will be the consequences on a kid that started so young using this gadget? There are lots of advantages and disadvantages of using mobile phones. Firstly‚ the main usage of phones is to call or to text someone‚ but with the upgrade of technology‚ phones have changed completely
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The article “Is Facebook Making us Lonely?” is about how various authors in different fields have done research on social media to determine if it is Facebook that make us lonely or whether people that use it is lonely in general. Finsterbusch (2016‚ p. 14) say that being lonely may not mean what the actual definition of it suggests. One‚ people can be lonely by not having many friends to interact with to tell them personal things. Two‚ people can become lonely by just reading about other people
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