Addiction is a common trait for many creative people, and phone addiction is near ubiquitous among working adults. Phones have a deadly impact on creativity, depressing cognitive control and eliminating the deep thinking that gives rise to art.
Phones are especially engineered to create behavioural addictions that cripple the attention span. As the global use of smartphones matures, countermovements are gaining in popularity. The recent rise of ‘slow productivity’ is an example – a conscious valuing of ‘deep thinking’ time that eliminates unnecessary addiction.
