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  • How to Win With Your Mind

    How to Win With Your Mind

    As we approach the end of the semester, my focus has been on the white paper project. For a preliminary topic or direction for the paper, I want to do something on the topic of flow state. I’ve been playing sports for as long as I can remember. I wish I had learned the impact…

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  • Why I Should Stop Using TikTok

    This week, I wanted to track my conscious and unconscious urges to use Instagram and TikTok. I deleted both apps from my phone on Monday morning. To track my behavior every time that I tried to locate the app or felt my thumb hovering over the app’s old location I recorded it in the Notes…

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  • Data Detox

    Data Detox

    This week, I wanted to track my conscious and unconscious urges to use Instagram and TikTok. I deleted both apps from my phone on Monday morning. To track my behavior every time that I tried to locate the app or felt my thumb hovering over the app’s old location I recorded it in the Notes…

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  • We Can’t Focus or Read?

    We Can’t Focus or Read?

    Reading the title, “I Have Forgotten How to Read” is a comforting feeling. It is comforting because I have always felt I have never been a good reader. This is a well-documented truth. I never liked reading. At a young age, learning how to read, I was always significantly more focused on pictures than words,…

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  • Getting to Know ‘Stolen Focus’

    It’s quite the experience to read that “on average, a student would switch tasks once every sixty-five seconds. The median amount of time they focussed on any one thing was just nineteen seconds.” (p. 10). Even as I transferred browser tabs to copy Johann Hari’s words into this document I found myself reaching for my…

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