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19: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

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The Importance of Interaction With Nature

I don't think we're at the point where how I talk to my Amazon Echo is necessarily going to rewire my brain in a way that's how I'm going to talk to people. You have to be careful that you're not going to spend all of your time working with this tool in a specific way. One of the things he mentions at the very end is that interaction with nature increases your cognitive control. And so one of the things that, and this is again something that I kind of do already when the weather is nice, I'll take my dog for a walk every day in the middle of the day.

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