"As our attention spans and cognitive abilities are increasingly damaged by digital overuse and AI-mediated shortcuts, the ability to focus deeply and learn something in depth is quickly becoming a critical skill. Never have we had such broad access to information. And never have so many people felt unable to concentrate long enough to truly master anything. Learning is everywhere, yet depth feels elusive."
"In a world where artificial intelligence can retrieve, summarize, and recombine information faster than any human, what remains valuable is the capacity to incorporate it. And for that to be possible, you need to stay with a subject long enough for it to transform you. To develop judgment, sensibility, and embodied understanding. Women power the world's productivity - it's time we talked more about it."
Digital overuse and AI-mediated shortcuts are damaging attention spans and cognitive abilities, making deep focus and in-depth learning critical skills. Broad access to information coexists with widespread inability to concentrate long enough to master subjects; learning is ubiquitous while depth remains elusive. Artificial intelligence can retrieve, summarize, and recombine information faster than humans, so the valuable capacity is to incorporate information through prolonged engagement, developing judgment, sensibility, and embodied understanding. Wealthy individuals and more people deliberately engineer information scarcity by blocking sites, silencing notifications, using distraction-free devices, embracing deep work, or swapping smartphones for dumb phones. A TikTok trend shows people filming themselves doing nothing.
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