One modern trend leading to procrastination is that we need to know more stuff to survive. For example, people without computers or smart phones are missing out on a myriad of life improving, time saving apps and websites. With those tools, though, come investment costs and learning curves that may prevent people from participating. It seems that the more time goes on the more complicated life becomes. I did not want to learn the Android operating system just to get my voicemails out of the Verizon cloud app they were stored in, but years of trying and learning finally were made moot when Verizon added a feature to make it easy. The time I wasted! I could have been playing Cookie Jam on my phone. I can\u2019t help but feel like I\u2019m at the mercy of Verizon and a few other companies but where would I be without them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worse yet, our attention is being gobbled up by things we wish we didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 Last night\u2019s Illini basketball game score, for example \u2013 thank you FaceBook!\u00a0 Hey, if the aliens are coming to enslave us or eat us and there is nothing we can do about it, I don\u2019t want to know ahead of time \u2013 that would just ruin the procrastination party or hasten our demise.\u00a0 But no, we live in the modern age where information has taken a crap on your living room carpet.\u00a0 There is so much information and misinformation that our collective brains are overloaded.\u00a0 If the president – it doesn\u2019t matter which – sneeze-farts at a news conference, the whole world is laughing by noon.\u00a0 By 5pm, the conspiracy theories have been hatched (he\u2019s already an alien slave or possibly one of their elected officials).\u00a0 Not to minimize the significance of an alien invasion or a presidential sneeze-fart, but in my day, we were ignorant and unimaginative.\u00a0 The new knowledge is distracting us from our prime objective by directing our attention to un-important and un-urgent matters\u2026like this blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now get back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One modern trend leading to procrastination is that we need to know more stuff to survive. For example, people without computers or smart phones are missing out on a myriad of life improving, time saving apps and websites. With those tools, though, come investment costs…