After Rebirth, the Celebrity Daughter is the Medical Expert!-Chapter 502 - 396: Cognitive Impairment

"I set rewards for myself for completing tasks each week and for finishing them ahead of schedule, these rewards motivate me." 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Teacher, don’t you ever need a vacation or rest?" The students were curious.

"I do rest, though. Rest is as indispensable to the brain as vitamins are to the body. If my rest time were taken away, my mind would be tormented, which is too painful," she said. "It’s just that rest doesn’t necessarily have to be during holidays, nor does it necessarily mean indulging in doing something."

"I feel like I can switch from a distracted state to a focused state at will. Teacher, you said don’t play with your phone, don’t go online, these will affect our concentration. I think I’m not like that," some students refuted Ning Youguang’s viewpoint. "I am the kind of person who can start studying as soon as I put down my phone."

"Are you sure you really can?" Ning Youguang laughed at this. "According to scientific research, once the brain adapts to distraction, it becomes infatuated with it. Later, even when you want to focus, it’s hard to break this habit. This is reality, therefore, we need some strategies to help ourselves reprogram our brain to make its structure more suitable for long-term focus. Moreover, what I’m sharing with you now isn’t just about how to concentrate, it’s about how to engage in deep learning and deep work, which requires more focus than concentration."

The students fell into contemplation.

Ning Youguang continued, "When I go to the cafeteria to eat, I often see students using their phones to pass the time while waiting in line for food. Their brains may have already been reprogrammed. In some ways, this is ’mental disability.’ Those who are accustomed to this mode will find it very difficult for their brains to handle deep work and deep learning, even if they often schedule time to train their concentration skills."

"So, I’m disabled..."

"Is it really that terrifying?"

"Just realized I’m ’mentally disabled.’

"Learned something new, mental disability."

The students were shocked and fearful.

"Realizing the problem is the beginning of solving the problem, don’t be too tense," Ning Youguang smiled. "I think we modern people should learn well from Thoreau, let ourselves disconnect for a while in this connected world."

"Have you studied Thoreau, teacher?"

"Yes," Ning Youguang said. "Every year, I go into retreat in Tibet once. The retreat time is just for my deep reflection; during this period, I can replenish my brain’s energy well. There is no internet at the retreat place; I sleep at nine in the evening and wake up at four-thirty in the morning every day. In those ten days or so, I feel as if I’ve restored some tranquility in my life, a truly magical experience."

"We don’t have such conditions, though."

"How is retreat explained?"

"There are many ways to temporarily escape the hustle and bustle, like some friends around me take one or two months a year, some take one or two weeks a year, some take one or two hours a day to be alone with themselves. Friends who have had these experiences feedback to me that they can give their brains a good rest."

Ning Youguang not only shared her own experiences but also shared the experiences of her friends to help everyone better absorb and take action.

"The Sabbath in the Hebrew Bible is about taking time to be quiet and reflect, to be grateful for God and his gifts. I know some groups have set up an ’internet Sabbath’ for themselves, with the aim of understanding what is lost when staring at a screen. I think this ’internet Sabbath’ is a good idea."

"Okay, I get it. The teacher thinks we’re all internet-addicted teens and should quit the addiction."

Some students jokingly teased Ning Youguang.

Ning Youguang said, "It’s not just you who have internet addiction. Look around you and see how many people don’t have internet addiction?"

"Oddly balanced it out."

"Feels like there’s nothing wrong, yet there seems to be."

Ning Youguang smiled, "Besides overcoming the habit of constant distraction, gaining enough motivation can instantly transform your scattered work and life, becoming focused and deep."