SPONSORED FEATURE
ON YOUR MARKS…
BY RABBI CRAIG KACEV, DIRECTOR OF THE SABJE KING DAVID SCHOOLS
THE MYTH OF
multitasking
“Attention is the rarest and purest form
of generosity.” (Simone Weil)
The advent of technology has irrevocably
altered many aspects of our lives. The
pace and mode of communication are
some of these changes, but perhaps the
greatest of these changes is the dispersed focus that it has brought into our
way of functioning. How often have you
been in the middle of a meaningful conversation with people when you realised
that they were only half listening, as
they checked their messages on their
phones. Maybe you, yourself are guilty of
this when you find yourself texting while
driving. The impact of immediate accessibility that social media platforms have
brought into our lives is so ubiquitous
that people engage in it throughout
meetings, functions and other important events. It is certainly worth pondering how we have allowed this to happen
to us, and whether it has something to
do with people trying to squeeze more
activities into their already busy lives.
With regard to adolescents, some recent articles have described teenagers as
p