it also makes me wish I had my Forster collection with me
I've been going to the local library to get study done in the afternoons, and taken to reading books in my breaks but then putting them back onto the shelf instead of borrowing them, as a way of making myself come back to the library the next day. Today I started a book by Susan Hill called Howards End Is On The Landing, a very pleasant sort of autobiography via her personal project to spend a year only rereading books on her own shelf, not buying new ones. In the introductory chapter I came across this quote:
Too much internet usage fragments the brain and dissipates concentration so that after a while, one's ability to spend long, focused hours immersed in a single subject becomes blunted. Information comes pre-digested in small pieces, one grazes on endless ready-meals and snacks of the mind, and the result is mental malnutrition.
Ouch.
I'm pretty sure it's true (at least as far as my personal usage patterns go), and I'm also sure that it's crunch time as far as passing medical school unscathed and sane goes, so I'm doing a small friends list cull in the name of spending fewer hours per day online. It's mostly based on diverged fandomly interests; feel totally free to stop following my journal if you wish, or stick around, I don't make many locked posts :)
Too much internet usage fragments the brain and dissipates concentration so that after a while, one's ability to spend long, focused hours immersed in a single subject becomes blunted. Information comes pre-digested in small pieces, one grazes on endless ready-meals and snacks of the mind, and the result is mental malnutrition.
Ouch.
I'm pretty sure it's true (at least as far as my personal usage patterns go), and I'm also sure that it's crunch time as far as passing medical school unscathed and sane goes, so I'm doing a small friends list cull in the name of spending fewer hours per day online. It's mostly based on diverged fandomly interests; feel totally free to stop following my journal if you wish, or stick around, I don't make many locked posts :)