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- Overall, my ability to pay attention when it comes to school work is average. My mind is always running, I tend to find myself often “spacing out” or just disconnecting from everything altogether. If I’m in class, I easily get lost in my own mind and it also happens while doing homework. At the start of the semester my ability to pay attention seems slightly better but it gets worse as the semester goes on.
- on a scale of 1-10, I would say I’m a six when it comes to how addicted I am to my phone.
- It took me exactly 1:35:17 to get through the article “ My Distraction Sickness”. I got distracted a total of four times. The first time was my mother calling me to help her with something. The other three times were me simply getting distracted on my phone or zoning out completely.
- The Article “ the distracted student mind” has a very educative and informative tone. The article “My Distraction Sickness has a more personal and relatable tone. The last article “in defense of Distraction” has an informative but playful tone and it is very innovative at the same time. The tone of all three articles differ because although the authors are trying to convey a message about the same topic, each approach gives each article its own tone. Two of the articles have similar tones, while one of them has a completely different one due to it being a description of a personal experience .
- The primary arguments presented by Sam Anderson in his article “ In Defense of distraction” are that distraction is an important factor of focus itself. Another of his primary arguments is that moments of distraction can lead to better creativity and discoveries. Also he argues that being super focused on a task can be detrimental to the mind, that the mind needs its own moment to disconnect. Anderson describes in his article how distraction is not as bad as everyone makes it seem, he says that it is actually a good thing. He states that distraction can help relieve the mind from the pressure of focusing so hard on something, leading to new discoveries due to the wandering of the mind. I find Anderson’s arguments semi convincing. His arguments a new and fresh but I don’t think that they are convincing enough to change societies current view on distraction.
- After reading all three articles, I find myself torn about the “epidemic of distraction”. The article “ the distracted student mind” and “ my distraction sickness” both gave me an insight on how much distraction we as humans in a modern world face. Ultimately it shows an area of weakness in our human brain and mind. I do agree that electronic devices are a huge part of the problem of distraction. On the other hand, Sam Anderson’s Article gave me a new point of view on distraction. I learned that maybe distraction is not as bad as society makes it seem. He explained that from distraction new ideas can be sparked and he showed many examples of great things that have come from “ distraction”. As I sit here and try to come to a stand in this epidemic, I can’t help but think that overall distraction sets us back a lot as individuals. Distraction takes away time that it’s supposed to be used to complete a given task. Using my personal experience and the newly learned information from this three articles, I believe that distraction should be dealt with but it should no be deemed as an awful thing.