Comments on: Brains http://cafehayek.com/2008/07/brains.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: gregorylent http://cafehayek.com/2008/07/brains.html/comment-page-1#comment-27680 gregorylent Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:12:23 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3168#comment-27680 <p>nick carr is not a yogi, clearly</p> <p>his consciousness is expanding, and he doesn't know how to understand that...</p> <p>not sure about the writer of this post</p> nick carr is not a yogi, clearly

his consciousness is expanding, and he doesn't know how to understand that…

not sure about the writer of this post

]]> By: Bob Smith http://cafehayek.com/2008/07/brains.html/comment-page-1#comment-27679 Bob Smith Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:17:07 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3168#comment-27679 <p>I read Churchill's "History of the English Speaking People" twice a year and re-read one of Clancy's novels at least once every 3 - 4 months. While I have to admit that I do it for my own pleasure, I have noticed that I am still able to concentrate on other projects for sustained periods of time, as I was able to in my youth. That I teach securities (Series 7, 6, Group 1, etc.), which requires deep concentration, may also be significant. But, it's no more difficult for me today at 55 than it was at 20. Having said all that, for those having difficulty maintaining focus, it may be more of being out of practice rather than losing any inate abilities. At least that's my hope.</p> I read Churchill's "History of the English Speaking People" twice a year and re-read one of Clancy's novels at least once every 3 – 4 months. While I have to admit that I do it for my own pleasure, I have noticed that I am still able to concentrate on other projects for sustained periods of time, as I was able to in my youth. That I teach securities (Series 7, 6, Group 1, etc.), which requires deep concentration, may also be significant. But, it's no more difficult for me today at 55 than it was at 20. Having said all that, for those having difficulty maintaining focus, it may be more of being out of practice rather than losing any inate abilities. At least that's my hope.

]]> By: vidyohs http://cafehayek.com/2008/07/brains.html/comment-page-1#comment-27665 vidyohs Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:39:33 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3168#comment-27665 <p>There is a certain inevitability about things.</p> <p>Use TV to raise your children and they are going to grow up with very little of your ability to concentrate on anything for as long as you do. I might add that this is a progressive thing. Your grandchildren will probably not be able to concentrate to the degree your children did.</p> <p>I didn't see a TV until I was in the 8th grade and we didn't own one until I was a Sophomor. Consequently I am a reader and I can determine in very short order if what I am reading is what I want to pursue. If not, I move on to another book. If it is then I can read until dust settles on the cobwebbs that form around me as I read.</p> <p>My children were not exposed to TV until they were in late adolesence and they didn't see a video game until well into their teens. They are all readers who can concentrate.</p> <p>From my aged stand point the evil of TV and the newer electronic gadgets is that it has been suppressing or destroying the common sharp imagination we here in this nation had prior to commercial TV.</p> There is a certain inevitability about things.

Use TV to raise your children and they are going to grow up with very little of your ability to concentrate on anything for as long as you do. I might add that this is a progressive thing. Your grandchildren will probably not be able to concentrate to the degree your children did.

I didn't see a TV until I was in the 8th grade and we didn't own one until I was a Sophomor. Consequently I am a reader and I can determine in very short order if what I am reading is what I want to pursue. If not, I move on to another book. If it is then I can read until dust settles on the cobwebbs that form around me as I read.

My children were not exposed to TV until they were in late adolesence and they didn't see a video game until well into their teens. They are all readers who can concentrate.

From my aged stand point the evil of TV and the newer electronic gadgets is that it has been suppressing or destroying the common sharp imagination we here in this nation had prior to commercial TV.

]]> By: Marcus http://cafehayek.com/2008/07/brains.html/comment-page-1#comment-27678 Marcus Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:59:22 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3168#comment-27678 <p><i>"Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages."</i></p> <p>Perhaps you're just getting older and your concentration isn't what it used to be.</p> <p>When I was in my 20's I would concentrate so deeply on a problem that the outside world and time itself would cease to exist.</p> <p>No in my 40's, that's rarely the case.<br /> </p> "Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages."

Perhaps you're just getting older and your concentration isn't what it used to be.

When I was in my 20's I would concentrate so deeply on a problem that the outside world and time itself would cease to exist.

No in my 40's, that's rarely the case.

]]> By: Matt http://cafehayek.com/2008/07/brains.html/comment-page-1#comment-27677 Matt Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:34:14 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=3168#comment-27677 <p>I suffer video game degeneration. Is that the same thing?</p> I suffer video game degeneration. Is that the same thing?

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