Take Your Digital Life Back

Take Your Digital Life Back
How to better allocate your time and attention while focusing on meaningful work.
My keynote at the TESOL Macedonia Thrace Northern Greece special event, in January 2018.

Transcript

1. Take Your Digital Life Back How to better allocate your time and attention while focusing on meaningful work TESOLMTh Pie Cutting Event 2018 Dimitris Tzouris Anatolia College
5. Is being connected all the time a good thing?
6. “People need to stop thinking about one task in order to fully transition their attention and perform well on another. Yet, results indicate it is difficult for people to transition their attention away from an unfinished task and their subsequent task performance suffers.” ―Sophie Leroy
7. “On average, interruptions take 23 minutes and 15 seconds to recover from—even if the distraction is only a minute.” ―Gloria Mark, Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine
8. “Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep thinking.” ― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
9. “In a very deep way there’s a close link between originality, novelty, and creativity and these sort of spontaneous thoughts that we generate when our minds are idle” ―Jonny Smallwood, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of York, UK
10. “Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is a truly divine life, if one is not bored… Idleness, then, is so far from being the root of evil that it is rather the true good. Boredom is the root of evil; it is that which must be held off. Idleness is not the evil; indeed, it may be said that everyone who lacks a sense for it thereby shows that he has not raised himself to the human level.” ―Søren Kierkegaard
11. “We need to re-invent the busy signal.” ―Jeff Jarvis, Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
12. “You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.” ― Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto
13. Marla Aufmuth / TED CC BY-NC 2.0 Tristan Harris ― timewellspent.io
15. Why don’t we challenge and re-evaluate our (digital) life habits?
16. Marla Aufmuth / TED CC BY-NC 2.0 Manoush Zomorodi ― manoushz.com/book
19. Turn off all notifications - leave only the very important ones on
20. Monitor your phone use - be in control - snooze notifications Moment Break Free OFFtime Notif Log
21. Rescue Time UBlock Origin f.lux Help your computer treat you better
22. Make Positive Psychology a new habit
23. Enforce more good habits, like exercise and reading Streaks
24. Meditate (yes, there are apps for that)
25. Insight Timer Stop, Breathe and Think
26. Dafydd Jones / TED CC BY-NC 2.0 Andy Puddicombe, author and co-founder of Headspace
28. “It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.” ― Greek philosopher Anaxagoras
29. Thank You TESOLMTh Pie Cutting Event 2018 tz.rs/tydlbtesolmth dimitrios.me