{"id":1126,"date":"2013-03-30T05:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T10:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2013-03-30T05:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T10:37:28","slug":"losing-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Losing Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big proponent of deep reflective thinking.\u00a0 I believe critical thinking is essential to learning. My process for this has always been to read, think, read, converse, think again and then write. That is not happening lately I can\u2019t seem to focus long enough on any part of the process. Back in December I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1114\" target=\"_blank\">removing digital clutter <\/a>to help me focus that did not help much, I find I have even less of an ability to focus on any one thought now.<\/p>\n<p>I struggle to follow a line of thought to its natural conclusion.\u00a0 That deep reflective satisfying process eludes me.\u00a0 I can\u2019t seem to get out of research mode, I click here I click there and I get nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a puppy in a yard full of squirrels.<\/p>\n<p>I rediscovered an article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/07\/is-google-making-us-stupid\/306868\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is Google Making Us Stupid<\/a> which describes the phenomena I am experiencing. It is well worth the read.\u00a0 I hate to admit that it took me a few tries to get through the article \u2013 I kept getting distracted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big proponent of deep reflective thinking.\u00a0 I believe critical thinking is essential to learning. My process for this has always been to read, think, read, converse, think again and then write. That is not happening lately I can\u2019t seem to focus long enough on any part of the process. Back in December I wrote about removing digital clutter to help me focus that did not help much, I find I have even less of an ability to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1126\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,27],"tags":[162,127,223,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}