Stop Scrolling, Start Learning

If you’re one of the 400,000 odd Australians who commutes to work on the train every day, you’d be no stranger to the fact that everyone around you is inextricably glued to their Smartphone, scrolling their Facebook minifeed like their lives depended on it.  With the average Australian commute lasting between 27 and 45 minutes, that’s a lot of time dedicated to, well, voyeuristic indulgence, but not much else.  Or alternatively, perhaps this is news to you.  You immerse yourself so deeply in your scrolling that frankly, if an elephant hopped on-board, you’d hardly bat an eyelid.

You’d be remiss to not have noticed, however, that Australia is in the throes of a productivity crisis.  Not just any productivity crisis, mind you, but one that could see Australia run out of money to pay for Medicare, welfare and education systems unless we take urgent action.  Although there’s no such thing as a quick fix to such a complex economic problem, one wonders if there could be something a little bit more productive we could be doing with those 400,000 odd commuting hours per day.

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