Mindful Safety: A Multi-level Approach to Improving Safety Culture and Performance by Christopher Langer

Author:Christopher Langer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2021-01-12T12:00:00+00:00

Interrupted Brains

In a city of the future, it is difficult to concentrate.

– Lyrics to Palo Alto, Radiohead, 1998

In the time it takes you to read this section, there is a high chance your brain will be interrupted by your phone buzzing. Even if that isn’t the case, you may be seeking out distractions purely out of habit. As we noted in Chapter 4, the brain can be hijacked as it searches for its next dopamine hit. A former vice-president of user growth at Facebook went as far as saying:

The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth.24

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