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Bewilderment

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 28/05/19 18:00

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Just past 9 o’clock now, and I’ve just put Callum to bed.

Alison is out with some friends tonight, and the girls have gone horse riding (Grace passed her test just a few days ago and she’s now free and self-sufficient)

I’m in my bedroom looking out my window at the sunset and its peaceful and quiet, the birds are singing in the back garden.

Moments like this, are seen rarer and rarer and at times, almost unachievable now, as the pace of life quickens, every single day and the interruptions and the urge to be interrupted increased in an exponential way.

On the bed side table are 21 lessons of the 21st century (a really kind gift, from Chris Barrow) and I’ll be starting it in two days’ time on my holiday with Callum.

The title of this blog post comes from the blurb and cover notes of that book.

Today in the practice, in a brief conversation with Andy, he filled me in on some of the stuff that’s rushing through Facebook in the dental world at the moment.

Andy’s summaries amuse me, they mean a great deal (as they do him) as he is one of my only touch points with social media now, but I always leave him utterly bewildered.

I wonder and I’m amazed at how easily we’re all sold now, by the jungle drums and the self-profess expert status of a billion people and a billion different channels.

I was fortunate (but mostly unfortunate) enough to listen to a lecture last year on how to become a key person of influence on social media.

There is a formula for this, as there is a formula it seems for everything now, a way of making yourself “Andy Warhol” famous for 5 minutes.

But of course, this is the tip of the iceberg, if you’re not prepared to block the incoming information stream, is like trying to drink from a dozen fire hydrants at once.

The cleverest people now, it seems, are the ones that can block out the external noise and focus on the important tasks at hand.

It seems like long ago now that I realised, I couldn’t change all the world (or perhaps, any of it) but dipping my toe in to the stream of madness, always leaves me with a sense of bewilderment.

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