Potential Magazine Fall 2015 - Florida Edition | Page 8
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Brain Studies
Prove Why
Teens Are More
Impulsive,
Reactionary
Than Adults
The frontal lobe (the part of
the brain in charge of
reasoning and weighing
risks) takes an average of
25 years
to fully develop and, in
some cases, up to 30 years. This
explains why teens are more
impulsive and reactionary than
adults.
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ADD Linked to
Excessive
Technology
Usage
The average attention span for
teens has dropped from
Students
12 to 8 seconds
Surpass Peers
(less than a gold fish!) due to
excessive screen time usage on
Collegiately,
everything from computers,
Financially When phones and video games.
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Dr. Karen Landers, Pediatrics
Consultant with the Alabama
Department of Public Health
(ADPH) said, “Negative
effects of screen time include
decreased language skills,
less reading ability, poorer
short term memory, as well
as problems with sleep and
attention.” She urges parents to
limit screen time to less than
two hours a day.
Teen Vaping
on The Rise,
Tattoos on
The Decline
The number of teens using
e-cigarettes tripled between
2013 and 2014. About
22 percent
of Americans who have tattoos
are between the ages
of 18-25, a drop from 36
percent reported in 2003.
These college drop-outs found opportunities to achieve multi-millionaire status:
• R yan Seacrest turned a high school internship at a radio station into his own show before
dropping out of the University of Georgia. He later moved to Hollywood and is now a
multi-millionaire radio and TV host.
• Steven Spielberg was rejected by some of the best film schools in the nation, then later
enrolled in and dropped out of Cal State Long Beach. He’s now a billionaire movie director,
producer, and co-founder of DreamWorks.
• O prah Winfrey dropped out of Tennessee State University lacking only one college class—
thirteen years and 28,000 guests later—she returned to finish her remaining class, earning her
degree and speaking at commencement.
• P aul Allen dropped out of the University of Washington and later convinced Bill Gates to drop
out of Harvard so the two could start Microsoft. Now they’re both billionaires.
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