Our generation is one addicted to technology, bloated with information and starved of wisdom, writes Arianna Huffington
Guardian Professional, Wednesday 8 January 2014
What leading executives need more than anything today is wisdom. And
one of the things that makes it harder and harder to connect with our
wisdom is our increasing dependence on technology. Our
hyper-connectedness is the snake lurking in our digital Garden of Eden.
"People have a pathological relationship with their devices," said Kelly McGonigal, a psychologist who studies the science of self-control
at Stanford's School of Medicine. "People feel not just addicted, but
trapped." We are finding it harder and harder to unplug and renew
ourselves.
Professor Mark Williams summed up the damage we're
doing to ourselves: "What we know from the neuroscience - from looking
at the brain scans of people that are always rushing around, who never
taste their food, who are always going from one task to another without
actually realising what they're doing - is that the emotional part of
the brain that drives people is on high alert all the time…
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