The Channel Surfer

Who you are

You can leave your phone in another room without flinching, which puts you ahead of most people. What you can't do is stay on one thing — your attention moves constantly, and anything with a slow payoff loses you fast.

So this isn't a phone problem. It's a stimulation problem that would exist without the phone. Take away the screen and you'd still be reorganizing the kitchen halfway through a task, because moving on is the reflex.

You're good at breadth: you know a little about everything, you're interesting to talk to, you spot connections across fields that specialists miss. That's a genuine asset and it's built out of the same wiring.

The one thing to protect against is a life with no depth anywhere. Pick one area, just one, and go further than is comfortable. Everywhere else you can keep surfing.

You know it's you when…

• Your phone isn't the problem and you still can't sit still
• You know a little about a startling number of things
• You've moved on from something right before it got good

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