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Who Hijacked Our Focus, Health, and Quality of Life?

We Did: Here’s How to Get It Back

Clifford Jones
7 min readFeb 2, 2024

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I’m not a statistics or math major, but most of you who start this article can’t or won’t finish it. Reading my article, you’ll see why I begin with a challenge. And hopefully, you will accept my suggestions to become part of the solution to today’s most significant problems affecting all of us.

Imagine This

You’re talking with someone you love or like, family members or friends. All of a sudden, your brain feels the pull of your Smartphone. And no matter how hard you try to stay focused on the here and now, you must check the device in your hand.

Maybe you can’t sleep well, or your mental health suffers. It could be you know and love someone suffering from addiction and physical ailments from stress gone wild. It’s easy to see we’ve got serious problems to address despite the many positive aspects of the world, like Mother Nature calling us back to her so we stop dumping our garbage and leaving our dog poop behind us.

Modern Day Luxuries That Tax Us

Welcome to the downside of our modern society and technology. Like all things in the material realm, technology can be good or bad and often somewhere in between, like the distinction between hot…

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Clifford Jones
Clifford Jones

Written by Clifford Jones

Medium stopped paying me due to a technical problem on their end. Their support is unwilling or able to help me. So, I stopped writing. Get a grip, Medium.

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