In Louise’s post, Time Confetti: How Our Attention Gets Shredded, she shares that “It has recently been estimated that on average we check email 74 times a day and switch tasks every 10 minutes. Even if we aren’t fanatical email checkers, think how many times you have a quick look at messages or social media.”
We check email 74 times a day on average! What did we do with our time in the good ol’ days? And knowing what we now know about quantum physics, are we messing with our future?
In the good ol’ days, what generally stopped me from engaging in a task was boredom, or my enthusiasm waned. Maybe I ran out of time to complete it. But it was linear, one task after another and not 50 different browser tabs and multiple devices “at the same time.”
Then again, in quantum terms, everything is “at the same time.” Time isn’t a straight line. It’s a field. A fabric. A construct that collapses into form only when we observe it. Which makes me wonder. Are we changing our trajectory every time we change browser tabs? Are we shredding our consciousness every time we check an email?
When we add a layer of quantum physics, Louise’s suggestions are so much more than reclaiming our time and attention. It comes down to deciding our future, moment by moment: Presence? Or the next dopamine fix?
Thanks for your response Allison, you’ve taken this to another level and one which is fascinating! Also when you talk about having multiple browsers tabs open, it’s the physical ones on our computer and also the tabs in our mind, trying to keep up with the constant shifting of energy and attention.
Yes Louise, you are so right wrt to also opening multiple tabs on our mind and trying to keep up, again bringing forth a danger of “getting lost in trasition” with regards to our presence of being.