The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely. Sherry Turkle More Quotes by Sherry Turkle More Quotes From Sherry Turkle When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to throw away these phones, we're not going to throw away our technology. Sherry Turkle heroin technology We expect more from technology and less from each other. Sherry Turkle technology motivation inspiration Loneliness is failed solitude. Sherry Turkle introvert solitude loneliness We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. Sherry Turkle intimacy lonely We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need. Sherry Turkle heal giving needs Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation. Sherry Turkle someday conversation If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology. Sherry Turkle taken running book It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill. Sherry Turkle technology skills light Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object. Sherry Turkle insecure mirrors lying We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become. Sherry Turkle links might world Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. Sherry Turkle technology challenges mean There's a lot of research that indicates the brain rewards us for multi-tasking by giving us a shot of neurochemicals whenever we start a new task. Our brain rewards us even as our performance in every task degrades. We don't even notice that our performance is bad. We don't care. We feel like masters of the universe because our brain is chemically rewarding us for multi-tasking. Sherry Turkle care brain giving As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family. Sherry Turkle vulnerable trying moving When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either." But we did this without having the conversation. Sherry Turkle social-network okay privacy We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or we incorporate so many machine parts that we don't know where we end and the machine begins. Sherry Turkle cyborg We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits. Sherry Turkle motivation inspiration needs I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport. Sherry Turkle sports blood thinking We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.' Sherry Turkle feelings needs thinking The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine. Sherry Turkle psychology self ideas Hold on to your passion - you'll need it! Sherry Turkle passion needs
