so rather than teach people to pay attention and live without a smartphone attached to their hand, the whiners decide to dumb it down and embrace the attention deficit disorder. I'm old. Hopefully I'm not in the way yet.
a big part of sports to me was the discipline of staying focused, constantly paying attention, mental toughness. I understand they're trying to optimize learning for the "millennials" but it feels like "dumbing down" to me, or catering to the lowest common denominator.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/th...llennials-1434484144
As players arrived for voluntary workouts and minicamps this spring and summer, they noticed sweeping changes designed to cater to how research shows millennials learn. That means making concessions for people with shorter attention spans, a desire to multitask and, yes, a need to check their phones all the time.
