Today's world is a global village. Everyone who can and afford to, is increasingly connected via internet. This technological encroachment has revolutionized how we spend our time now and how we entertain ourselves. It has shown us ways to learn in a new and diverse ways. It facilitates connections among people and gives a new dimension to social interaction. But there's a latent and inbuilt risk involved in this constant connected mode.
Namely 'distraction'. Our social media today is not only to keep in touch with our friends and family, rather it is a feed of our own choice. We subscribe and return to it to benefit from the channels, pages and services they constantly throw at us. We stay hungry for what's going on in the lives of the people we care, and in the world around. Ironically, we are not satiated in the end. Those modicum of information, that mixture of feeds only leave us more hungry and impatient.
At the end, exposed to information of various kind and nature, which is also insufficient and inadequate to quench our thirst, we grow impatient and agitated and repeatedly visit different sites and feeds for what we often don't know ourselves. As a result, it leaves us bewildered and dissatisfied. This is why disengagement is the name of the game in today's world.
We have to know when to engage and when disengage. In order to retain and increase our productivity and get rid of restlessness and stress that results from 'browsing' through materials and information, we actively should decide to disengage and disconnect to return to our priorities and academic/ professional activities. If we fail to disengage and return to 'life' and whatever we love to do, we will ever deviate and derail our attention, goals and ambitions.
So, disengagement is vital for increased productivity and fulfillment in life and work.
Namely 'distraction'. Our social media today is not only to keep in touch with our friends and family, rather it is a feed of our own choice. We subscribe and return to it to benefit from the channels, pages and services they constantly throw at us. We stay hungry for what's going on in the lives of the people we care, and in the world around. Ironically, we are not satiated in the end. Those modicum of information, that mixture of feeds only leave us more hungry and impatient.
At the end, exposed to information of various kind and nature, which is also insufficient and inadequate to quench our thirst, we grow impatient and agitated and repeatedly visit different sites and feeds for what we often don't know ourselves. As a result, it leaves us bewildered and dissatisfied. This is why disengagement is the name of the game in today's world.
We have to know when to engage and when disengage. In order to retain and increase our productivity and get rid of restlessness and stress that results from 'browsing' through materials and information, we actively should decide to disengage and disconnect to return to our priorities and academic/ professional activities. If we fail to disengage and return to 'life' and whatever we love to do, we will ever deviate and derail our attention, goals and ambitions.
So, disengagement is vital for increased productivity and fulfillment in life and work.
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