{"id":4715,"date":"2023-06-10T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/do-you-have-digital-dementia-a-memory-coach-explains\/"},"modified":"2023-06-10T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T14:17:48","slug":"do-you-have-digital-dementia-a-memory-coach-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=4715","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Digital Dementia? A Memory Coach Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindbodygreen-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_113,w_1500,h_843\/c_fill,w_700,h_400,g_auto,q_85,fl_lossy,f_jpg\/org\/48aumyf8zjzudisxl.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cDigital dementia is this idea where our smart devices are making us less smart,\u201d he explains on the mindbodygreen podcast. \u201cThey act as external memory drives for us, so we don&#8217;t need to flex our memory muscles.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Think of the aforementioned phone number example: Now that our smartphones have the ability to save contacts, we don\u2019t have to worry about memorizing people\u2019s numbers\u2014so we don\u2019t. This, in a way, makes us more dependent on these devices. \u201cYou could be texting or calling somebody every single day,\u201d says Kwik, but what if your phone had no battery or you didn&#8217;t have it on you? You\u2019d be helpless!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say you must memorize your entire contact list. \u201cBut it should be concerning to us that we&#8217;ve lost the ability to remember one [number], or a pin, or a passcode, or a seed phrase,\u201d adds Kwik.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Technology is convenient, no doubt, but that doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t flex your memory muscles from time to time. It\u2019s the same reason why experts recommend taking the stairs occasionally, even if you have access to an elevator\u2014inactivity comes with a cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDigital dementia is this idea where our smart devices are making us less smart,\u201d he explains on the mindbodygreen podcast. \u201cThey act as external memory drives for us, so we don&#8217;t need to flex our memory muscles.\u201d\u00a0 Think of the aforementioned phone number example: Now that our smartphones have the ability to save contacts, we &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,53],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-brain","tag-mbgpodcast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}