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dancers with a life coach seeking check those out just for optimal living daily. Wherever your hearing, this define Oliver shows professionals get right to the post. Optimize, your life The case independent thinking by Ali Corner. We want less that Sea Oda UK made centuries ago, Renee, Descartes coined the phrase. I think. Therefore I am. He believes that the first Finding aspect of humanity was that we are creatures of thought, The only reason we know we are truly alive is due to the fact that we can think about our existence, our ability to see independently, defines our humanity, our ability to say independently is being challenged. Far from the sixteen hundred the current made his philosophical proclamation in the two thousands? We often don't take advantage of our humanity messy previously defined it oftentimes when we are called to think about something or come across a question to be answered. We quickly pull out or devices and

mask Google pretty much everyone I know. Does this myself included this practice while very convenient and expedient actually may cause more harm than good quickly. Turning to go for? The answer is evidence that we are losing the patients, the ability and the will to engage in dependent, deep thinking I Therefore, I am has turned into a google. Therefore I am wise, deep thinking import, deep thinking is an indicator that we are engaging retaining and build. Palm learning opportunities, if we don't pause and attempt to puzzle out as for ourselves, we lose a valuable. opportunity to enhance the power of our minds, the media This data is changing our ability to think independently and engage in deep attention Alex this further use an example. I bring up quite a bit men teaching if we want to become physically stronger, we have to eat right and exercise. We can't just take supplements expert

lasting results. The same idea goes for our minds: we want to exercise our minds and become mentally stronger, retain more information and be able to think independently, we have to take the time to listen. Actively in red closely. We can simply do an internet search for the information we seek and expect our minds a flourishing, gets through. longer with lasting results, is easier to Shirley. So we do it. Access to data has its drawbacks, but it can of course be very useful in certain situations when How I arrive at our restaurant of choice, solving into the thought of freshness and salsa into our horror. The lights are off windows. Shuddered is closed. We need a plants dad so he gets on yelp and I get on. Google maps were quickly select somewhere. New situation solved case closed and we are able to ease instead of starve to death is a technology which now think of another scenario. Josh, and I are hanging out with some old friends. We have

each other in a while matter, really fun conversation animated with ebb and flow everyone is engaging on multiple levels: my delight. I find out that one of the group actually live down the street for me in San Diego some fifteen years ago, so I sneak into my phone pull up a Google image of my old apartment to continue the discussion by his to share. The conversation, has shifted more of them instantly out of place of my blurry. Google image looking around for a new threat, discussion. I see there are others just as does engaged as I am on their phones, when we draw attention to our phones. We raw ourselves of a fulfilling naturally evolving conversation, shifting our attention to our devices. Even for a little while altars and natural flow of things, we lose her friends said, felt and meant we lose the eye contact so important for creating empathy we seek to actively listen, resulting in our company thinking. We are interested in what they have to say, showing your friends. There

dont care at all about them. We something independently and rob ourselves as a very attribute that defines our humanity I don't need to look up a photo of my old apartment at TAT very moment and said I could have continued conversation about San, Diego and what it meant to both of us. We shared our memories and created a meaningful exchange. When I want information. I didn't dig into the back of my mind to conjure up a verbal image of my apartment. I found it easier to search for picture online lame. My friends deserved better than this. According to mighty. Professor sherry Turkle quote percent of Americans say that during our last social interaction, they took out a phone and eighty two percent that it deteriorated. The conversation they were in and quote studies indicate that. in a silent form, place screen down between two people at a table causes them to share less with each other. The result

phones, mere presence in a conversation, is feeling less connected, less interested, less empathetic unless human How can we reclaim our humanity and our ability to think independently yours we'll strategies that are sure to limit distractions caused by the presence of cell phones number one. If you're going out, leave your phone at home or in the car, or be content that is resting quietly in your pocket or purse. This will take some willpower number two if you're staying home and don't wanna be distracted by your phone leave? It upsets, there's or in a room seldom visited this takes us a less willpower. The number one number three is the airplane mode setting which disables, Bluetooth, wifi and telephone settings. The problem with this is that you can just turn airplane mode off any time spent a combined someone number one or number two for optimal effectiveness. Number four turn on duty disturb. While you are in the presence of others, the setting in them

calls and tax and to your device may use this small. The time number five set quiet hours on your phone for example, I set my quiet hours from nine p m to eight a m. So am I but to receive calls or tax between those times said he. My quiet, ours is done wonders for my sleep and my overall wellbeing number six. If he must have your phone with, you turn off the road. Occasions will be at the mercy of your phone. Remember, our food, exist for us the other way. Around number seven there's power in numbers. If you're out with friends have a verbal agreement about phone, such as no visible phone, the table or if you must use your phone step outside enumerate. If you have the right of women set up an aversion therapy situation in which you receive a shock everytime. You pick up your phone, I'm just getting on setting boundaries helps us reconnect with experiences and people in the real world. beautiful

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great apes there. At the end, I would simply pick one that set out to you, so you don't get overwhelmed, maybe turning your phone off at night or setting a to do not disturb or keeping it in a different room that can make a huge difference, but don't try to do all those things. Are destroy one even for an hour or two a day and I'm sure I'll feel good, but that will do for today have a great day great weekend. If you listening in real time and I'll see you tomorrow, where optimal life awaits,