Bored And Brilliant Essay

On the bus one day, Kendra Pierre-Louis was stuck behind a woman that was on her phone. While she was on her phone, the woman was walking through a narrow bus aisle. However, instead of stepping down on a step she missed it because she was on her phone. This and the book, Bored and Brilliant: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Spacing Out, made Pierre-Louis realize how annoying people not paying attention while being on their phones is. That book is about how there are seven challenges for a week, and they are to help the reader get back time the lost from digital distraction without giving up their phone usage. The idea of the book is to make you bored, which is how your brain becomes more creative. Because when you are bored you become more creative and come up with better

Overall, humans have been distracted by technology and book lovers can barely finish a book, and parents pay less attention to their kids. An ex-Google strategist, James Williams, quit his job because he thought technology was stopping him from completing tasks without being distracted. He told The Guardian, “It was the kind of individual, existential realization: what 's going on? Isn 't technology supposed to be doing the complete opposite of this?” According to an organization called Time Well Spent that YouTube’s auto play and Snapchat’s streaks that they are designed for us to have a greater desire to keep watching, taping, and scrolling. A researcher at the University of Austin, Adrian Ward, explained how the internet is like junk food. The internet tricks us into thinking we need to have of it and we create a dependence on the internet. In addition, Google is making us not have to remember everything, for we can just search it up. Zomorodi’s book comes in handy because none of this is helpful unless there is something to do