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Wellbeing, Neuroscience Anna Gibbons Wellbeing, Neuroscience Anna Gibbons

Put your phone away!

Guilty, as charged. I am bound to my phone. I like to have this little piece of technology close to me and if I don’t, something is missing, I feel on edge, not quite right. What the heck is going on?! Less than twenty years ago, I didn’t even own a mobile phone. Once I finally purchased one (a true late adopter!) I owned the simple Nokia 1100 with no functionality to do anything beyond making phone calls and sending the odd prepaid text message. And I was very happy with that…in fact, I was strongly devoted to that Nokia phone for a long time, even after most of my friends and family had upgraded. I didn’t know what I didn’t know….and now I know.

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