Rewiring Your Brain for the Digital Age

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Written By ♥ ed

Currently, your brain prioritizes or seeks:

  • Efficiency

  • Speed

  • Confirmation of what you already believe

  • Affirmation of your ego through cognitive and emotional self-protection

  • Maintaining cohesiveness of your stories about how your world works

 

In the Digital Age, you need to train your mind to prioritize:

  • Seeking novelty, exploration, and discovery—not primarily confirmation, affirmation, and cohesiveness

  • Actively seeking disconfirming information that challenges what you believe

  • Asking questions that lead to exploration and discovery (Why? What if? Why not?)

  • Deferring judgments (saying, “Yes, and” not “Yes, but”) in order to explore and discover

  • Embracing differences and trying to make meaning of differences

  • Embracing ambiguity by not rushing to the safety of making comfortable, speedy decisions

  • Excelling at “not knowing” and knowing how to learn

♥ ed
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