In today's era, people's memory is worsening over the period of time. Despite of national initiatives and efforts to abate this growing dilemma, citizens' are still losing their mind power. In this essay, I will expound on the cause of this problem before providing some effective steps that could be taken to overcome these challenges.
There are some blatant and obvious causes of this issue. To my mind, one of the most glaring concerns the dependency on technology. In general, people are using technology almost every day for their needs, even for simple solutions such as, using a calculator for solving mathematical problems and using global position system (GPS) while driving a car to the same places. As a result, their minds is not being actively involved in any mental activity, so they are developing this debilitating issue. This was the case for one of my acquaintances, Ben. Who used to use internet to finish his homework rather than using his brain to solve the question during his school years. Before he knew it, he developed an unknown mental disorder that hinders him to remember any event after a stipulated time.
As to viable measures, I feel the most potent one would be to reduce the use of any technological gadgets for simple tasks. More specifically, we should start using our mind to remember future events and recall them accordingly. For instance, instead of using reminders in our phones, which reminds us to do certain task at a particular time, we should start using our brain memory to recall these data. This way, not only do we enhance our brain cell power, but it can maintain our memory power. I am not alone in this view, and some empirical evidence can be provided to support it. A 2007 study, for instance, conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Toronto found that those students who are using their brain to recall the classroom lectures have 90% higher grades than those students who are recording lectures with technology platforms.
To sum up, I maintain that the overuse of technology in our daily lives is the main cause of this trend, and reducing technology dependency is the only way to solve this colossal issue.
In
today
's era,
people
's memory is worsening over the period of time.
Despite of
national initiatives and efforts to abate this growing dilemma, citizens' are
still
losing their
mind
power. In this essay, I will expound on the cause of this problem
before
providing
some
effective steps that could
be taken
to overcome these challenges.
There are
some
blatant and obvious causes of this issue. To my
mind
, one of the most glaring concerns the dependency on
technology
.
In general
,
people
are using
technology
almost every day for their needs, even for simple solutions such as, using a calculator for solving mathematical problems and using global position system (GPS) while driving a car to the same places.
As a result
, their
minds
is not being
actively
involved in any mental activity,
so
they are developing this debilitating issue. This was the case for one of my acquaintances, Ben.
Who
used
to
use
internet to finish his homework
rather
than using his
brain
to solve the question during his school years.
Before
he knew it, he developed an unknown mental disorder that hinders him to remember any
event
after a stipulated time.
As to viable measures, I feel the most potent one would be to
reduce
the
use
of any technological gadgets for simple tasks. More
specifically
, we should
start
using our
mind
to remember future
events
and recall them
accordingly
.
For instance
,
instead
of using reminders in our phones, which reminds us to do certain task at a particular time, we should
start
using our
brain
memory to recall these data. This way, not
only
do we enhance our
brain
cell power,
but
it can maintain our memory power. I am not alone in this view, and
some
empirical evidence can
be provided
to support it. A 2007 study,
for instance
, conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Toronto found that those students who are using their
brain
to recall the classroom lectures have 90% higher grades than those students who are recording lectures with
technology
platforms.
To sum up, I maintain that the overuse of
technology
in our daily
lives
is the main cause of this trend, and reducing
technology
dependency is the
only
way to solve this colossal issue.