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"Time management, information overload, multitasking is a good thing." These are the old frameworks for considering current realities and living the life you choose.

Technology and digital convergence has created a new framework of attention management, control, and focus. These are the new realities for excelling in the 21st century.

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  A comment on Conversation: Can young adults be taught how to change their individual approaches to managing time so they don't also fall into crazy techno-habits?

  Feb 20 2011: This is actually a problem of CONTROL. Either technology controls you, and you live a life of fractured attention and reaction, or YOU control technology, and you live a life of the actions you CHOOSE. It's imperative that young adults, even teenagers, are taught how to control their attention because habits formed after years in the business world are that much harder to change. The demands on our attention are only going to get greater, and the quiet, reflective learning times are being abandoned, although often not by choice. The frame needs to be shifted from "time management" to "attention management," as I've written about here: http://regainyourtime.com/productivity/time-management-irrelevant/ and here: http://regainyourtime.com/attention-management/
  
  It's not the technology or the gadgets, it's when we fail to CONTROL them that our lives are in danger of being damaged.