Deep breathing has a multitude of health benefits but, when it comes to the brain, consciously taking a breathe simply allows time to pause. And when you purposefully pause you create an opportunity to clear your mind and direct your concentration. My one and only problem with the book was that the same chapter pattern was used almost the entire time, and that really slowed me down, since it felt like I was reading the same thing over and over. A little more diversity in format would have been appreciated on my part.

Try a 1 minute meditation. Inspired by the book The One-Moment Master: Stillness for People on the Goby Martin Boroson, this is a tool I love and a technique I used regularly with my Year 9 students when I was a classroom teacher (hey, if 15 year olds can can master it, so can you!).

Goodin offers a highly readable overview of the primary problems common technology and tech services such as social media pose the average person, from anxiety about making calls, to ignoring your partner or children in favour of mindless scrolling, and an inability to disconnect. Some don’ts: avoid opening more tabs (you don’t need them); try not to let your stomach control your brain (hangry is real people!); and say no to the naughty stuff (it’s tempting to pop a sleeping pill or down a bottle of wine in one sitting in an attempt to distract yourself from the tabs, but, ultimately, these are not good self-care options). Make a Top 3 -Do the must get done at the beginning of each day when you are fresh and energized.Then prioritise the rest accordingly.

But this can lead to information overload. Even when you think you're only focused on whatever you're doing in a single window, seeing all those open tabs in the corner of your eye takes up mental energy, distracting you from the task at hand. Based on studies of multitasking, this tendency to keep an overwhelming number of tabs open may actually be altering your brain. Some studies have found that "heavy media multitaskers"—like tab power users—may perform worse on various cognitive tests than people who don't try to consume media at such a frenzied pace. As a society, our relationship with technology really is getting quite out of control. It’s normal to have your phone next to you at all times. It’s normal to spend hours on it each day. If you want to change your relationship with tech, this book is a good choice - it is accessible and easy to consume. Split into three sections: loving, living and learning, the book briefly covers all the major technology dilemmas/issues confronting us in the modern world. Published in 2021, it also references the challenges that the pandemic threw at us in terms of technology (zoom fatigue among them).It is mostly introductory so it’s worth reading through the sections that interest you and potentially using additional resources to delve in further. That said, there are, obviously, situations in which one might need many tabs open at one time. Daria Kuss, a senior lecturer specializing in cyberpsychology at Nottingham Trent University, tells Metro that “there are two opposing reasons we keep loads of tabs open: to be efficient and ‘create a multi-source and multi-topic context for the task at hand.’” Right now, for example, I have six tabs open to refer to for the purposes of writing this story. Sometimes, there's just no avoiding tabs. Also. Also. You might be rolling your eyes at this book now, thinking of all those preachy relatives or online coaches who repeat the same mantra of ‘phones are bad for you, delete all social media, in MY day-‘ whenever you dare to even think of any problems you might be having in regards to tech. PDF / EPUB File Name: My_Brain_Has_Too_Many_Tabs_Open_New_Ed_-_Tanya_Goodin.pdf, My_Brain_Has_Too_Many_Tabs_Open_New_Ed_-_Tanya_Goodin.epub The key phrase to know, according to the Metro's Ellen Scott, is “task switching,” which is what our brains are really doing when we think we're multitasking. Research has found that humans can't really efficiently multitask at all—instead, our brains hop rapidly from one task to another, losing concentration every time we shift our attention. Opening a million tabs, it turns out, is often just a digital form of task switching.