Suffering From Pdd.

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Suffering From PDD? You're Not Alone
Are You Listening? Or Are You Playing With Your BlackBerryAgain?
Posted by Marc Brownstein on 03.10.09 @ 10:42 AM

Marc Brownstein

I have always valued "listening" as an art, and prefer to surround myself with people who are good at it. Yet the art ofusing those dimensional lobes on the sides of our heads is going the way of newsprint. The culprit? Hand-‐held devices. Yes, those priceless pieces of technology that we have all come to covet are nowprime suspects for stealing attention away from human dialogue. The sender thinks he/she has effectively communicated when, in fact, that has not happened at all. Huh? Allow me to explain. I am havinglunch with a colleague and his hand-‐held device vibrates. I am in mid-‐sentence, yet he reaches for his small screen to see who has sent him a message. He tells me to keep talking -‐-‐ he canhear me. So I continue to make my point. As I do, he replies to the sender, which requires thought. And that means he has shifted from listening to me to composing a reply. When he looks up, I know hehas no idea what I just said. You know exactly what I'm talking about, right? Happens to you every day. Person either doesn't respond to your comment, or has no idea what you just said, because he'sburied in his small screen.

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Now take that scenario and multiply itmillions of times every day. It happens in the agency. With clients. With my wife and kids. With friends. So much so that I've come to the conclusion that we are in danger of no one listening to anyoneanymore! I call it "PDD," or Perpetually Distracted Disorder. And it's spreading like an epidemic. Now, I am an admitted small-‐screen addict. But I know when to listen, and when to reply. In my...