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Screens destroy your learning rate, here is why...
It's like the gym. Do you get jacked, lifting heavy weights on focused exercises? Or a 2.5lbs weight for 80 different random exercises?
Fundamentally, social media is distracting. It's wind. It messes with your emotions. You use it during your breaks. It fills you with information, when your brain is begging for a break.
It highjacks the main neural pathway that allows for learning, and fries it.
After being bombarded with social media, you don't even remember what you did.
There's a reason why that happens. Screens emotionally ping pong you, destroying your framing, and scattering your attention.
They attack the main loops of the learning.
The main flow for learning is:
- emotional trigger (motivation/frame)
- work (stress, information gathering)
- relaxation (consolidation)
If you interrupt the emotional framing, you don't even start, you don't get the point. You learn, without learning. You learn pointless things, that don't even matter, because they get you to care about the things that don't matter.
Screens are full of Emotional Triggers:
You hear about a war? And suddenly you are learning about it. You heard xyz celebrity gossip, what are you doing for the next 20 minutes? You see a car, or game, or product review? Exactly, it scatters your attention.
Screens distract your from the Work:
Screens disrupt the work cycle. Notification, after notification. Interruption after interruption. The work you do, is much worse, if you constantly have to restart, because you were distracted. You need sufficient eustress to be able to get into flow. It needs to be directed and focused on the task at hand. If your focus is just surface level, you never unlock a deeper level of learning.
Screens steal your Relaxation:
Screens destroy the relaxation step. You think that watching something on your phone would be a good break. You can see something funny. You smile. But the you get worked up. Something makes you angry. And suddenly you are stressing over something, completely unimportant. The relaxation step is essential for learning. You need to be bored and calm to consolidate thoughts, reflect, and to store information properly in your brain. The cycle of stress to find an answer, and the relaxation after finding the answer, is essential for even remembering what you did. The relaxation allows ideas to seep. It's the counter emotional reward you receive, which kicked off the learning cycle to begin with.
If you allow screens to control your learning cycle, you'll learn many surface level things, that you didn't even want to know.
If you want to actually learn what's important, it's important to cultivate, emotional focus, strong focus, and deep relaxation.
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So start with getting better at one of them. I'd recommend to start with relaxation. If you have been always online, you definitely didn't relax enough. And that deep relaxation, is where you learn about yourself.
Stare at a wall, and cry. Raw dog experience, and have a loooooong needed epiphany.
Big Bro Lesson #36
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