Cyber Overload

May 25, 2010

Interview with Joanne Cantor, author of the book Conquer CyberOverload: Get More Done, Boost Your Creativity, and Reduce Stress

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Mike Carruthers:
There’s an epidemic in 2010 of cyber overload.

Joanne Cantor:
Cyber overload happens when we’re so connected to our gadgets our computers, our cell phones, our blackberries - that we don’t have any time to ourselves we can’t anything done and we’re all stressed out. 
 
 

Joanne Cantor, author of the book Conquer CyberOverload, says as much as technology is a help in our life it is unquestionably a distraction.

A lot of people are at their computers and they’re supposed to be working and they’re not getting anything done because they’re cyber loafing. They’re checking the sports scores or gossip pages or texting their friends.

And another problem is that technology gives us too much information.

You can do your research sitting at your computer online and you keep getting more and more information. It’s much easier just to click on that next link then it is to sit back and put it all together and figure out where the next step is.

One very effective solution to all of this is to take breaks and get out into nature.

Actually looking at nature nurtures creativity. The great anecdote about Albert Einstein, he used to say that he would work really hard on a math problem and when he would get stuck, he would go sailing and the answer would often come to him on the water.

To hear the complete unedited interview, click here