In today's dopamine-driven world, it's easy to become addicted to the unhealthy aspects of a modern-day lifestyle, such as fast food, social media, and consumer culture. These dopamine-inducing habits can lead to an addictive lifestyle that hinders our ability to be healthy, happy, and adapt to our rapidly changing world. To develop future-ready skills that can combat the dopamine cycle of our modern world, we must focus on building resilience, collaboration, adaptability, and innovation. I want to be clear that dopamine is not the enemy. However, chasing dopamine rushes at the expense of healthy molecules like endorphin, oxytocin & serotonin is something we want to avoid. You can experience the pleasure of dopamine when best combined with healthy activities that lead to resilience, collaboration & serotonin.
Developing future-ready skills requires a focus on resilience, collaboration, adaptability, and innovation. By incorporating these 12 steps into your daily life, you can build the skills and mindset necessary to thrive in an ever-changing world. Remember to prioritize healthy habits and tech usage to create a sustainable and fulfilling lifestyle. If you're interested in learning more, get in touch.
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While it’s a common realization that the world has become a connected global village, it’s also a fact that we are seeing increasing divisions based on ideology, culture, class, race, religion, family values, and politics. With each passing day, differing attitudes, cultural values, perceived social norms, and political ideologies are pulling people further apart. This increased polarization is also making people feel isolated, demoralized, or angry since dialogue often ends up in arguments, hostility, and further division rather than listening, connection, problem-solving and social cohesion.
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It would not be news to say that excessive use of technology is negatively affecting children of all ages. Screen time not only affects children’s mental health, but can also negatively impact parent-child relationships, attention span, self-esteem, self-identity, academic performance, physical fitness, and social development. According to a survey, around 70% of parents these days struggle with excessive tech use at their homes. Be it smartphones, tablets, or laptops, parents are finding it hard to manage the screen time of children. The issue does not end here; managing tech use is also a key concern at schools as devices continue to be an integral part of learning. This makes us eager to learn and understand the idea of tech withdrawal—behaviours and emotions children exhibit when technology use is diminished or removed. In this blog, let’s learn about tech withdrawal, what it is and what parents and teachers can do to manage it effectively.
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While smartphones prove to be a powerful educational, safety, communication, and organizational tool within schools, it also raises concerns about distraction, academic integrity, cyberbullying, and social isolation among students. This is why, schools all around the world are deliberating different policies to tackle the negative consequences of cell phones for the youth of all ages. This blog outlines different cellphone policies implemented by various countries across the globe, the rationale behind it, as well as the results of these unique policies.
