Week 8: Chapter 7 — Unplugging from a Noisy World

1.Eldredge describes the constant stream of news, social media, and digital input as something our souls were simply not designed to handle — a genuine category of suffering unique to our era. Do you agree that this is genuinely new and qualitatively different from the information overload of previous generations? Why or why not?

2.He argues that we have become addicted to our devices not because we are weak but because they are engineered to capture and hold our attention — that the deck is stacked against us. Does that framing make you feel more compassion for yourself about your technology habits, or does it feel like an excuse?

3.Eldredge encourages readers to take deliberate 'technology fasts' — periods of intentional disconnection. Have you ever done this? If so, what happened in you? If not, what makes you reluctant to try?