Cellphones distract us from the fact that the subways are 30 years old.

Distraction is the enemy of focus. When we are distracted we aren’t thinking or functioning to our fullest potential.

Recently, I’ve been wondering how technology has distracted us from opportunities to innovate.

Of course, technology has helped us innovate in a multitude of ways. This isn’t an argument that technology and innovation are mutually exclusive, but rather a call to awareness. How are you relying on technology as a crutch? How is technology desensitizing and distracting us from fixing problems and finding opportunities to be innovative?

It’s human nature to pick the easier option the majority of times. How is the use of technology becoming the easy alternative to picking a more proactive but possibly more uncomfortable alternative?

In social situations, I bet you use technology as a crutch. For the sake of comfortability, you glance at your phone when a conversation becomes uncomfortable.

In relationships, you stay in solitude, or silence, to avoid the inevitable uncomfortable conflict resolution.

Discomfort breeds growth and innovation. Is technology making us too comfortable?