Conclusion Now You See It

Summary:
This chapter sums up the entire book. In the beginning of this chapter Cathy talks about when a professor had his students shut their phones and laptops and to close their eyes. The professor encourages them to try to stay focused on one thing. This goes on for about 5 minutes. The students say that they had trouble staying focused on one thing and that their mind wondered to many different things. Cathy gives a fact to support this, "Neurologist Marcus Raichles's research at Washington University has recently determined that an astonishing 80% of our neural energy is taken up not by external distractions at all but by the mind talking to itself." She talks about how our era now is obsessed with  attention, distraction, and multitasking.

Critical Commentary:
I liked this chapter probably the most out all the other chapters because it was shorter and more to the point. It made it easier to read. I think the idea of the book is a good idea, but I think it kind of went into too much detail and made it boring and hard to read. But Cathy does a very good job of supporting her argument with facts, stories, examples and more. The most convincing fact that supports her argument is in this chapter and its when she says that 80% of our distractions are internal not external. For me, this was the one fact that really proved her point. The others did as well, but I think this one was the best. I like how she ended the book with the title and saying that if we change the way we do things and see things, it will help us to "see it". "It", being how we need to change in order to keep up with technology and the way the real world is.