What’s your favorite way to fight back and reclaim your ability to concentrate? Here’s my favorite quick and simple action you can take to make your phone, tablet, or laptop a whole lot less enticing: Set your screen to greyscale, give yourself the gift of less distraction, and fewer goldfish moments. that intensive care could give him : the undistracted attention of a nurse. They’re increasingly being designed to hijack our already limited attention spans. That can only prolong a return to undistracted governance in Washington. Smart phones and the apps that proliferate on them are engineered to be addictive. Now, is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing more of these “attention span of a goldfish” moments recently? If you over- or under-estimated, were you wildly optimistic or pessimistic like the people in my workshop? Go ahead and give yourself a high 5 if you guessed correctly. Microsoft found that since the year 2000 (or about when the mobile revolution began) the average attention span dropped from 12 seconds to eight seconds. Researchers in Canada surveyed 2,000 participants and studied the brain activity of 112 others using electroencephalograms (EEGs). To correct the record, here’s how Time reported on the original story:

Still, attention spans were trending downward so in my defense, they may have dipped to seven seconds since the 2015 study! On top of that, COVID-19 has only made life more stressful, unpredictable and anxiety-inducing. For a more detailed explanation about all anxiety symptoms, why symptoms can persist long after the stress response has ended, common barriers to recovery and.

Tremors, trembling, shaking or vibrating might be visible or not visible. Give yourself a pat on the back if you concentrated long enough to make it through the video!įull disclosure: I screwed up and inadvertently exaggerated the numbers when I gave that presentation. After a nap or when waking up from sleep, your body feels like it is trembling, shaking, and vibrating. Just how long is the average person’s attention span? So it seems oddly appropriate that this video from my recent session for Collins Aerospace Leadership Club popped up as a lighthearted reminder to give yourself the gift of undistracted time. Some days, it feels like I have the attention span of a goldfish. I can’t be the only one who’s struggling right now to be present, remain focused on what’s important to me, and limit time spent mindlessly staring at a screen. This has served as a lesson to me, showing how practicing undistracted attention toward God in church, as well as in my practice of Christian Science.

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