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Take Your Digital Life Back

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.

Dimitris Tzouris

January 28, 2018
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  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

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  5. Is being connected all the time a good thing?

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  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

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  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

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  8. “Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep
    thinking.” ― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a
    Distracted World

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  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

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  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

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  11. “We need to re-invent the busy signal.” ―Jeff Jarvis, Professor of
    Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

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  12. “You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.”
    ― Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto

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  13. Marla Aufmuth / TED CC BY-NC 2.0
    Tristan Harris ― timewellspent.io

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  15. Why don’t we challenge and re-evaluate our (digital) life habits?

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  16. Marla Aufmuth / TED CC BY-NC 2.0
    Manoush Zomorodi ― manoushz.com/book

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  19. Turn off all notifications - leave only the very important ones on

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  20. Monitor your phone use - be in control - snooze notifications
    Moment Break Free OFFtime Notif Log

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  21. Rescue Time UBlock Origin f.lux
    Help your computer treat you better

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  22. Make Positive Psychology a new habit

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  23. Enforce more good habits, like exercise and reading
    Streaks

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  24. Meditate (yes, there are apps for that)

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  25. Insight Timer
    Stop, Breathe and Think

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  26. Dafydd Jones / TED CC BY-NC 2.0
    Andy Puddicombe, author and
    co-founder of Headspace

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  28. “It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.”
    ― Greek philosopher Anaxagoras

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  29. Thank You
    TESOLMTh Pie Cutting Event 2018
    tz.rs/tydlbtesolmth
    dimitrios.me

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