{"id":5855,"date":"2016-11-02T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2016-11-02T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:11:42","slug":"distractions-are-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2016\/11\/distractions-are-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Distractions Are Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a presentation from a neuroscientist last week on how our brains work. She highlighted different brain networks that one can imagine working well in some situations (&#8220;keep an eye out for tigers and snakes&#8221;), but get corrupted into un-, even counter-productive activities in modern circumstances (&#8220;keep an eye out for tweets&#8221;). We all have these networks and we all live in a world filled with more, and more round-the-clock, stimuli than our ancestors could have ever imagined. Staying on task gets more challenging all the time. Here&#8217;s an article from the NY Times Education section that might offer some helpful insights and tips: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/edlife\/how-to-deal-with-digital-distractions.html\" target=\"_blank\">How to Deal with Digital Distractions<\/a><\/strong> (Times, 1 Nov 2016).<\/p>\n<p>You can also test your ability to resist distractions right now: try not clicking on this post from 2013,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2013\/11\/like-ketchup-on-sushi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Like Ketchup on Sushi<\/strong><\/a>, that takes you to another Times article,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/03\/education\/edlife\/how-to-get-an-a-in-organic-chemistry.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How to Get an A- in Organic Chemistry<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a presentation from a neuroscientist last week on how our brains work. She highlighted different brain networks that one can imagine working well in some situations (&#8220;keep an eye out for tigers and snakes&#8221;), but get corrupted into un-, even counter-productive activities in modern circumstances (&#8220;keep an eye out for tweets&#8221;). We all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-habits-distractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}