While technology can certainly provide an edge for certain tasks, digital overload is a real and growing concern.
2010 study[#] by the University of California at San Diego suggests we consume nearly three times as much information as we did the 1960s.
60% of us consider ourselves addicted to our devices, with a third of us spending longer online each day than we intend.
Research by Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles, published in 2014, showed that the pen is indeed mightier than the keyboard. In three studies, researchers found that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who took notes longhand.
Those who took written notes had a better understanding of the material and remembered more of it because they had to mentally process information rather than type it verbatim.
And, another study, published in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, showed that people who doodle can better recall dull information.
The difference now is that there’s a return to traditional techniques by the digitally savvy. Many are successful vloggers, work in tech, or are experts in new media.
For Amy Jones, creator of Map Your Progress, which involves goal-tracking through art, She started selling her designs, known as Progress Maps, online in 2015
Similarly, New York-based digital product designer Ryder Carroll created the Bullet Journal, a method of note taking and list making, out of a personal need. “What you see now is the culmination of a lifetime of me trying to solve my own organisational problems, all of which stem from being diagnosed with ADD when I was very young,” he says. “A big misconception is that we can't pay attention. But in my experience, we can pay attention, except you’re paying the attention to too many things at the same time. So I had to figure out a way to, in short bursts, capture information and also figure out how to be able to listen.”
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