Level Up Your Brain
What's hindering our creativity and deep thinking skills? Almost everything.
News. There’s a big difference between real investigative journalism and quick news. Quick, popular news spreads like a virus and repeats itself across all sorts of platforms. It distracts all day long, it focuses on the parts of a story that are irrelevant, and it makes us passively accept a world that’s nothing but fatality and pessimism. I took journalism in college for a broadcasting degree. We were instructed to make sure we always dumbed down all our articles to an eighth grade reading level.
Convenience. When things get too easy and accessible, we lose our ability to get resourceful. Hardships spawn innovation. People get lazy when they grow dependent upon automation. I personally hate car windows that go down with the push of a button, but there are rarely any new cars with manual roll up windows anymore. It infuriates me. I’d always been able to fix a manual roll up window whenever it broke or fell inside the car door, but never an automatic one. Those require a trip to the dealership. Why would I want to take everything that breaks to a repair person? That’s just annoying. I like to fix my own stuff. It keeps me sharp. Automation is out of control. I know children who can’t tell time on an analogue clock anymore.
Tradition & Expectations. There are alternatives to almost every problem, and we’re highly adaptable. Believing we have to go through some traditional standard to reach a goal or solve a problem is limited thinking. It’s not necessary to depend on failed educational systems to get a job. I personally know at least four graphic designers who did not go to college. They did some research, put a portfolio together, honed their skills, and proved they could do just about anything anyone wanted. And they are all working. You can break some standards in art projects once in awhile. It’s called evolution. Our language constantly changes. We don’t speak or write in Early Modern English anymore (Granted, abbreviations and dumb text messages are a bit annoying).
Prescription medication and the Food Industry. We’re overdosed and unhealthy. Especially in America. Most refined and prepackaged food will make you dumber. Partially hydrogenated oil alone will literally shrink the brain over time and destroy cognitive skills. Fattier meats have been associated with the development of Alzheimer's. Store bought juices are loaded with so much sugar it impairs both long and short term memory. In addition, our doctors are feeding us antidepressants and pain medications like candy.
All these things and more can make us lose the ability to see the entire picture and remain innovative. I think we should be more careful in 2018.
News. There’s a big difference between real investigative journalism and quick news. Quick, popular news spreads like a virus and repeats itself across all sorts of platforms. It distracts all day long, it focuses on the parts of a story that are irrelevant, and it makes us passively accept a world that’s nothing but fatality and pessimism. I took journalism in college for a broadcasting degree. We were instructed to make sure we always dumbed down all our articles to an eighth grade reading level.
Convenience. When things get too easy and accessible, we lose our ability to get resourceful. Hardships spawn innovation. People get lazy when they grow dependent upon automation. I personally hate car windows that go down with the push of a button, but there are rarely any new cars with manual roll up windows anymore. It infuriates me. I’d always been able to fix a manual roll up window whenever it broke or fell inside the car door, but never an automatic one. Those require a trip to the dealership. Why would I want to take everything that breaks to a repair person? That’s just annoying. I like to fix my own stuff. It keeps me sharp. Automation is out of control. I know children who can’t tell time on an analogue clock anymore.
Tradition & Expectations. There are alternatives to almost every problem, and we’re highly adaptable. Believing we have to go through some traditional standard to reach a goal or solve a problem is limited thinking. It’s not necessary to depend on failed educational systems to get a job. I personally know at least four graphic designers who did not go to college. They did some research, put a portfolio together, honed their skills, and proved they could do just about anything anyone wanted. And they are all working. You can break some standards in art projects once in awhile. It’s called evolution. Our language constantly changes. We don’t speak or write in Early Modern English anymore (Granted, abbreviations and dumb text messages are a bit annoying).
Prescription medication and the Food Industry. We’re overdosed and unhealthy. Especially in America. Most refined and prepackaged food will make you dumber. Partially hydrogenated oil alone will literally shrink the brain over time and destroy cognitive skills. Fattier meats have been associated with the development of Alzheimer's. Store bought juices are loaded with so much sugar it impairs both long and short term memory. In addition, our doctors are feeding us antidepressants and pain medications like candy.
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