Back to episode — Episode 2527 CWSA 07/05/24
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ks, it's more than just the livestream. The members on the Locals community at scott.locals.com are basically friends. There just happen to be a lot of us. So if you want to be part of it, I will be your non-invisible friend, and it's way better than not having friends. Some say it's better than having friends. Yeah, some say. But I think you should have friends too. But if you don't and you don't…
← Previous segment →be outdoors anyway, my whole world shrinks to the size of my desk. And I even keep it dark. Only my desk area is lighted. Everything else is complete dark and silence. Otherwise I can't concentrate.
Now I recommend this. In this case Fisher King prefers the night hours. I prefer the early morning hours. But more generally, creative work is best done between midnight and 8 a.m. I like the 4:30 to 8 a.m. part. Other people like the midnight to 4 a.m. part. But it's the same part. That's where you can really focus on who you are and your creative process.
So just think about that. If you're having a problem concentrating on the things you need to move forward, think about experimenting either late at night if you don't have to get up or early in the morning. It turns out people are very different. You can't all be morning people. I used to think you could, but now I think you can't make yourself be a morning person. But you might be easy to be a 12 to 2 person.
Axios is reporting there's a big movement to ban cell phones in schools, to which every single person here who has any experience with children in schools and cell phones said, "Wait a minute. They weren't already banned? What? They weren't already banned in school?" Well, they were sort of banned in the terms that you couldn't use it during class, but everybody just used it under their desk. So everybody was just sort of like this. There's no way you could possibly concentrate on your class and do that at the same time.
However, I've got a provocative hypothesis. We assume that the children will learn better and be better off if they don't have the distraction of
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their phones because it's common sense. Am I right? What could be more obvious than you don't want people distracted when they're trying to learn? Well, let me throw in a little bit of a thinker. What are we preparing kids for? Are we preparing them for a world that doesn't exist or for a world that does exist? And the world that does exist is full of distractions. If you can't learn to do your c…
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