Wifi Persuasive Speech

Thesis: For one to live a happy life they need to live without certain items, as they cause them to not achieve happiness due to the distractions from these items and receive an overload of information, thus causing stress.

Introduction:
When I was younger, I always wanted a Barbie dollhouse. The Barbie dollhouse was expensive and at least worth a hundred dollars. For my birthday, my parents decided to give me that very Barbie dollhouse. Of course, I was happy but I was only happy for a quick minute and before I knew it, I didn’t know what item I wanted next. This is a situation that many people this day in age face, where they receive something and they don’t know what to do. But, these possessions also have a negative impact on people.
The high amount of information that is brought by these items causes high levels of stress. In “Wifi in the Woods” by Micah Baird discusses the fact that many outdoor, public areas are starting to provide wifi within the locations. Paul D. Miller, a DJ is surrounded by technology everyday due to his job. When he is in the face of nature he opens up his eyes on the effect of technology, “We’re going into information overload, when there’s too much of everything all the time…” (Micah Baird). The new technology is causing an information overload as it is around us everyday. This leads people to become stressed out since they are unable to understand the concept. When people are spending time constantly around the technology, this leads to a high stress level and for people to slowly become unhappy. Also from “Andrew Weil’s Spontaneous Happiness: Our Nature-Deficit Disorder”, human brains are not equipped for this modern age filled with technology and the negative impact of it, “Our brains, generally adapted to help us negotiate a successful course through complex, changing, and often hazardous environments, are suddenly confronted with an overload of information….”(Andrew Weil). Human brains can adapt the complex and dangerous activities but they are unable to deal with an overload of information. The overload of information might not seem hazardous, but it is since you are faced with not being able to complete your work due to it. The human brain is unfit and unable to adapt to this, which makes people at risk to become unhappy since they are unable to process anything. These items are causing an information overload to people and causing them to be unable to achieve