Manoush Zomorodi: How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
מנוש זומורודי: איך שיעמום יכול להוביל לרעיונות הכי מבריקים
Every week on her podcast "Note to Self," Manoush Zomorodi searches for answers to life’s digital quandaries. Full bio
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בהפרש של שלושה שבועות
were born three weeks apart
נעמדו בתור,
were lined up outside,
על הגאג'ט החדש והמדהים הזה,
on this amazing new gadget,
כשידיי עסוקות במשהו אחר
with my hands full of something else
constant notifications --
with complete silence.
10 to 15 miles a day,
people into Belgrade
that something shifted, though.
כשסוף סוף אוכל לישון כמו שצריך.
when I finally did sleep again.
of wandering into action.
הנחיית תוכנית רדיו ציבורית.
hosting a public radio show.
rushing off to war zones,
וב'טוויטר' בו זמנית.
and on Twitter at the same time.
תחנת רדיו ציבורית
of precious public radio dollars in you
כמות המאזינים שלי פי עשרה.
my audience size tenfold.
than writer's block, right?
waiting to be unearthed.
I actually had a good idea?
שבאמת היה לי רעיון טוב?
that damn stroller.
בשימוש באייפון.
were filled with phone time.
while I waited for my latte.
while I was sitting on the couch.
and my dear husband
למצוא עוד ספה מושלמת
another perfect couch
שרק אנשים משעממים הם משועממים?
boring people get bored?
when we get bored?
אם אנחנו לעולם לא משועממים?
if we never get bored?
לגמרי מהרגש האנושי הזה?
this human emotion entirely?
and cognitive psychologists,
ופסיכולוגים קוגנטיביים,
called the "default mode."
while we're folding the laundry
כשאנחנו מקפלים כביסה
gets really busy.
Once you start daydreaming
כשאתם מתחילים לחלום בהקיץ
beyond the conscious,
connections to take place.
אנו מקשרים רעיונות שונים,
is when we connect disparate ideas,
nagging problems,
"autobiographical planning."
we create a personal narrative,
יוצרים נרטיב אישי,
we need to take to reach them.
ובו-זמנית גם מעדכנים מסמך של גוגל
also while updating a Google Doc
Dr. Daniel Levitin says
Every time you shift your attention
בכל פעם שאתם מעבירים את תשומת הלב
a neurochemical switch
to accomplish that.
or five things at once,
או חמישה דברים במקביל,
four or five things at once,
ארבעה או חמישה דברים במקביל,
from one thing to the next,
מדבר אחד לדבר הבא,
שימוש בגלוקוז, גלוקוז, גלוקוז.
you're using glucose, glucose, glucose.
אספקה מוגבלת מזה.
a limited supply of that stuff.
our attention at work
74 times a day,
עם פרופסור לאינפורמטיקה,
talking to professor of informatics,
שכשאנשים בלחץ,
that when people are stressed,
their attention more rapidly.
that a person gets,
to check Facebook.
if we broke this vicious cycle?
those cracks in our day?
jump-start our creativity?
"Bored and Brilliant."
שלפחות מספר מאות אנשים ישתתפו,
a couple hundred people to play along,
started signing up.
they were doing it
that their relationship with their phone
"codependent," shall we say.
between a baby and its teddy bear
by a stranger --
between me and my phone.
like a power tool:
כמכשיר עם מנוע חשמלי:
if I'm not handling it properly.
אם לא מטפלים בו כמו שצריך.
If I don't pay close attention,
that I've lost an hour of time
any improvement,
התקדמות כלשהי,
that would measure how much time
to download another app
less time on their phones:
where they are.
a day on our phones
did I get a new email?
האם קיבלתי מייל חדש?
at Bard College,
on my phone per day,
70 to 100 times per day.
that I could have spent
more creative, more towards myself,
יותר יצירתי, יותר מועיל לעצמי,
I'm not doing anything important.
אני לא עושה שום דבר חשוב.
to observe their own behavior.
להתבונן בהתנהגות שלהם.
for challenge week.
to instructions in their inbox,
to check it all day long,
לבדוק אותו במשך יום שלם.
I am absolutely itching.
יש לי תחושת עיקצוץ מטורפת.
that I pick up my phone
from one room to another,
that I am really embarrassed
is not actually her fault.
that the technology is built to trigger.
Tristan Harris.
or I'm Netflix or I'm Snapchat,
או נטפליקס או סנאפצ'ט,
more attention from you.
of Netflix recently said,
are Facebook, YouTube and sleep."
הם פייסבוק, יוטיוב ושינה."
to spend your attention,
of "Transparent" ends,
I'll just stay up and watch it.
אני אשאר ער ואצפה בזה.
says you are this close
שאומר שאתם קרובים מאוד
personal information.
to their customers as "users"
ללקוחות שלהם כ"משתמשים"
are worth a lot of money.
product manager and author,
The saying is, if any product is free
האמרה היא אם המוצר חינם
תשומת הלב שלכם היא המוצר.
your attention is the product.
you load a page,
מיליארדי פעמים ביום,
billions of times a day,
ממודעת פרסום אחת.
that one ad impression cost.
יבזבז שנתיים מהחיים שלו
will spend two years of their life
some creativity kick in.
that went up to the top of the station,
but I could go back up
אבל אני יכולה לעלות שוב
and get a little cardio.
so I did it again and I did it again,
אז עשיתי זאת שוב ושוב,
kind of exhausted,
that had never occurred to me.
different things to different people.
יצירתיות בדרכים שונות.
day three's challenge the hardest.
it sucks you in --
and nearly cried.
know what I'm talking about.
in Los Angeles,
Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat and Vine
אינסטגרם, טמבלר, סנאפצ'אט וויין
emotional experience at first.
to look at that lock screen
להסתכל על מסך הנעילה
my social networks,
to decide that for me.
was very sad,
היתה מאוד עצובה,
when I've been on Twitter,
has really made me realize it.
withdrawal feeling,
of these powerful tools.
המובנה בכלים החזקים האלה.
that guilty gut feeling
תחושת האשמה הזאת שנמצאת
I'm wasting time on my phone.
challenges and reminders like this
אתגרים ואיזכורים מעין אלה
what the numbers said
feeling kind of low,
changing people's behavior
is far beyond what we thought possible.
למה שחשבנו שאפשרי.
were the people's stories.
זה הסיפורים של האנשים.
the young people said most intriguing.
היה הכי מסקרן בעיני,
some of the emotions
without connectivity,
ללא חיבור מתמיד לסמרטפון,
they're studying teenagers
while they're talking to their friends
מדברים עם חבריהם
they are less creative and imaginative
like violence in their neighborhoods.
כמו אלימות בשכונה שלהם.
leadership competency.
did "Bored and Brilliant" that week.
"משועמם ומבריק" באותו שבוע.
who said he felt like he was waking up
שאמר שהרגיש כאילו הוא התעורר
to be offline a little bit more,
gave us some clarity
especially kids,
to improve their lives
to check your phone,
how you're going to use the technology,
איך להשתמש בטכנולוגיה,
that's fine -- do it and be done.
זה בסדר-- תעשו זאת ותסיימו.
from doing the hard work
דעתכם מלבצע את העבודה הקשה
your most productive and creative self.
and uncomfortable at first,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Manoush Zomorodi - Tech podcasterEvery week on her podcast "Note to Self," Manoush Zomorodi searches for answers to life’s digital quandaries.
Why you should listen
Manoush Zomorodi is the host and managing editor of Note to Self, “the tech show about being human,” from WNYC Studios. Through experiments and conversations with listeners and experts, she examines the new questions tech has brought into our lives. Topics include information overload, digital clutter, sexting “scandals" and the eavesdropping capabilities of our gadgets.
In January 2017, Manoush and Note to Self launched "The Privacy Paradox," a 5-part plan to help people take back control over their digital identity. Tens of thousands of listeners have completed the 5-part plan so far, which Fast Company calls Manoush's "challenge to us to stick up for our internet rights." Her book exploring how boredom can ignite original thinking, Bored and Brilliant: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Spacing Out, comes out in September 2017.
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