There’s No Such Thing as an “Overnight Success”
“It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”
— Lionel Messi
The average attention span of a goldfish is 9 seconds.
The average attention span of a modern human is 8.25 seconds.
Over the past decade, we have seen a staggering amount of technological progress – including groundbreaking medical cures, clean energy, and connectivity.
Technological advancement has also come with its share of costs — including widespread impatience among our generation; millennials. A generation of impatience.
A generation that is addicted to instant gratification.
Our addiction to technology, primary social media, is no different than other addictions (i.e. alcoholism and gambling). Our engagement with technology triggers neurotransmitters – namely dopamine – that activate our sensations of pleasure.
Platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, allow individuals to construct false narratives about their lives. We effectively filter our lives. Everyone presents their best “self” at the expense of reality.
Objectively speaking, there is nothing wrong with this.
We start running into problems though when we see these filters as normal. Millennials experience…
