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Admit it. At a recent lecture sponsored by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in London, Leslie discussed his book, as well as two types of curiosity: diversive and epistemic. Diversive curiosity is a hunger for new information, Leslie says. Humans are born with an instinct to be curious, Leslie says.
He cites a study that found children between the ages of three and five ask nearly 40, questions. The knowledge that it was so readily available — just pick up your phone! Hours later, after spacing out during a TV show , after running through hundreds of word combinations — I knew it was two one-syllable words — it hit me. I won't lie. It was a sweet victory.
But what had happened here? Think of our brains like computers, Dr. Carmona explained. Files are stored in a hierarchical fashion. Information that's taken in in a stressful situation becomes embedded that's how memory evolved, after all, he said: think about the first time a human saw a lion eat a man. Important information — our address, names of loved ones — is kept front and center.
Less critical information gets tucked away in the stacks. Not always. Challenges came and went through the week. The name of a friend's partner which I solved by reciting men's names until I hit the right one. A market I liked in Paris leading to a long conversation with my friend from there that included drawing maps in the air and convoluted descriptions of neighborhoods.
And then, my stumper. This most trivial bit of information has kept me awake at night, stolen my attention from the season premiere of Game of Thrones, and in general driven me bonkers. It doesn't mean your brain is getting lazy. It's just that Google searches faster. Richard Carmona, MD. I can't think of the name of the housekeeper on Downton Abbey. Your keywords obviously are crucial and its almost a form of art to be able to have a really efficient google search that narrows right in on a specific answer.
Anyway, as if that didn't sound bad enough - my google searches in this past year have grown rapidly. I have always been an entrepreneur and have given a shot at 5 businesses that in one way or another didn't work out and turned into a learning lesson. This past year I've had a very successful year in my most recent endeavor and I've never used google so much in my entire life. Especially in the past months. In a world of endless questions truing to effectively run a business, google has an answer for everything, It's crazy.
YouTube tutorials are also incredibly useful. My business is seasonal and I've been so stressed I can't ever sleep. So I find myself playing Netflix all night in the background while my mind goes off in really random or not so random and rather repetitive , and very long google search quests.
It seems that one question conveniently leads to another. Everything is connected. My biggest obsession, celebrities net worth. It's absolutely facinating. Also anything that has to do with reptilians and the illuminati. But all in all, nearly every last question that pops up in my head leads to a google search. It's just so much information.
I like to know the answer to every question I have rather than be bothered by not knowing something, especially if it's something that peaks my interest. Even worse cause you end up spending money!!! I google everything. For instance, I'm laying in bed with my window open, smelling the fresh crisp air, when I decide to take to google to find out the benefits of opening one's windows. I learned all about "Sick Building Syndrome", stale air, indoor air pollution, cross breezes, etc and when I felt satiated by that new information, I decided to move on.
When I move on from one search to another, all I need is to look around me or pull something from my head. I'm never bored. Of course, when we say we're addicted to google, we're really just addicted to browsing the web.
I'm a major "lurker". I love reading conversations - everybody brings different things to a discussion and, as a Klonopin-popping introvert, I feel like I'm interacting without having to actually do so. I think this "addiction" to information can be detrimental to my relationship at times. So I force myself out of the spectacle and away from Google to go play board-games or watch Breaking Bad with him so he doesn't feel so lonely, but the truth is I'd be perfectly content spending the next 5 hours on the internet.
So while it's common, perhaps even "normal", it certainly isn't healthy if it's making you neglect other spheres of your life. I need to stop google-ing. Need to finish up writing my thesis but seems my subconcious mind always prone to this website.
About a year ago, New York Times columnist David Leonhard told NPR about how search terms differ geographically, with major differences between counties where life is easiest and counties where life is hardest.
Your searches give your search engine a view of how economic trends manifest themselves in your everyday life — something you may not want advertisers capitalizing upon. Neal Ungerleider recently reported that researchers have found looking up medical and drug information online is a major privacy risk. Even worse? Stolen medical information is routinely trafficked on criminal websites, and are often used for Medicaid fraud and other scams.
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