Hats off to all of you for helping start the year purposefully and mindfully in the moment!  As things ramp up, ask yourself, am I chasing the ever constant present, stressing about keeping up with online streams of content (email inbox, twitter feed, etc)?

Douglas Rushkoff, NYTimes columnist and futurist coined this term in his self titled book, Present Shock (available in the library) in 2012.  According to Rushkoff (2012), present shock can be explained as, “the human response to living in a world where everything happens NOW.  It’s a real time always on existence without any sense of beginning, middle, or end.”  The video below is a great 7 min introduction to this concept.

Present Shock from Dark Rye on Vimeo.

*Coming next week- how to avoid present shock