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    The speaker's project, called "Bored and Brilliant", encouraged limiting phone use to show the benefits of boredom. The idea came from realizing she never felt bored, so she spoke to neuroscientists who said boredom allows the brain to make connections and have ideas. The TED talk was informative, discussing how phones prevent boredom but hurt thinking, and how limiting phone use fosters creativity. Frequent phone use makes the speaker's challenge of limiting use difficult, but multitasking spreads focus thin and finishes fewer tasks, while technology triggers feelings of missing out to keep users engaged.

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    The speaker's project, called "Bored and Brilliant", encouraged limiting phone use to show the benefits of boredom. The idea came from realizing she never felt bored, so she spoke to neuroscientists who said boredom allows the brain to make connections and have ideas. The TED talk was informative, discussing how phones prevent boredom but hurt thinking, and how limiting phone use fosters creativity. Frequent phone use makes the speaker's challenge of limiting use difficult, but multitasking spreads focus thin and finishes fewer tasks, while technology triggers feelings of missing out to keep users engaged.

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    Encouraging boredom and limiting phone use

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    The speaker's project, called "Bored and Brilliant", encouraged limiting phone use to show the benefits of boredom. The idea came from realizing she never felt bored, so she spoke to neuroscientists who said boredom allows the brain to make connections and have ideas. The TED talk was informative, discussing how phones prevent boredom but hurt thinking, and how limiting phone use fosters creativity. Frequent phone use makes the speaker's challenge of limiting use difficult, but multitasking spreads focus thin and finishes fewer tasks, while technology triggers feelings of missing out to keep users engaged.

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    09 Video 1, answer the following guide questions:

    1. What was the speaker's project/idea?

    - The speaker’s project/idea was the “Bored and Brilliant (The Lost Art of Spacing Out)
    wherein it aims to encourage people challenges themselves to the limit the use of their
    mobile phones and shows us the fascinating side of boredom.

    2. How did the speaker come up with the idea?

    - It is when the speaker realized that she never gets bored and started to wonder what
    can happen to us when we are bored, and also what can happen to us when we never
    get bored, and what could happen if we entirely get rid of the emotion of being bored.
    So, she started to talk to neuroscientist and cognitive and came to know that it is
    fascinating when a person gets bored because it is when the brain became busy thinking
    brilliant ideas, connect the disparate idea, and even find an idea for the solution to our
    problem.

    3. Was her project informative? List down all the information you learned from her TED talk.

    - Yes, it is informative. Being supported by facts and surveys.


     How can smart phones make you feel not bored, how can smart phones help
    you connect even if you are doing something.
     How can multitasking affect the way we think, accomplish something and our
    health.
     How can usage of gadgets/phones make people nowadays not to think critically
    about life.
     How can avoidance of frequent use or not at all of the smartphones/social
    media makes someone think of brilliant ideas and fruitfully view life.

    4. How frequent do you use your phone? Can you see yourself doing the speaker's challenge?

    - I frequent use my phone almost every day. Yes, I can see myself doing the speaker’s
    challenge but it’ll be difficult as this wasn’t I used to do.

    5. What are the possible implications of multi-tasking? Do we finish more or do we finish less tasks
    than focusing on one (1) task at a time?

    - The possible implication/s of multi-tasking is busyness. Doing four or five things once,
    we are not actually doing four or five things at once, because the brain does not work
    that way. Instead, we rapidly shifting from one thing to the next, depleting neural
    resources as we go. We will finish more if we will focus on one task at a time rather than
    shifting from one task to another.

    6. According to the search engineer at Google, why is technology built to trigger social media users
    an itchy feeling if they are not with their phones?

    - Based on the reasons of the search engineer of Google, the use of technology trigger
    social media users of not feeling comfortable when not in their phones because we use
    technology such as phone as our medium for social interaction. As much as possible, we
    want to stay connected to social because it is there that we commonly communicate
    with other people. We don't want to be left behind on different social issues that is why
    we get anxious every now and then and results to our checking phone from time to
    time. And also, to get more attention from us and they do not want us to stop for having
    the feeling being connected with one another.

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