...is forcing me to rethink the way that I process the world around me. So how do I return to the good ole days (1990s) when I could actually wait until 6 o'clock for the evening news, wait until half time for sports scores, wait until I was finished with dinner to use the phone, and patiently thumb through encyclopedias to find the largest pinky toe ever recorded?I can't. And I don't think that I could if I wanted to.
Regardless, here are 5 ways that I know that my attn span is kicking the bucket...
1) My brain is over gratified by perpetual nuggets of "new".
Ever find yourself refreshing a newsfeed or forum page that you just refreshed? Better yet, ever find yourself checking all of your social media communities for updates/notifications and legitimately feeling dejected when you didn't have a new comment or request? Yeh...- Your brain is telling you something.2) If I see a paragraph with more lines than I can count at a glance, I'm skipping over it.
Who has time to read nowadays?! Well- Everyone I suppose since our faces are always glued to some sort of screen or monitor. Ok, so then who has time to read more than 2 sentences at a time without a break? Coffee Shop Philosophers maybe...? Though they're probably only looking at the pictures.3) I can't bear to do fewer than 2 things at a time.
Walking and texting. Driving and texting. Talking and typing. Eating and web surfing. Watching TV and status updating. Reading and listening to music. Flying and Wifi-ing. (What'd I miss besides everything?).4) Soccer... Love to play, hate to watch.
So if two teams are scoreless going into the 89th minute, then I've been watching them kicking a ball around for nothing. If someone scores in stoppage time then that's all that I needed to see...yeah?5) Two minutes of a song at the bar/club is still too much.
Dear DJs, when playing Too Short's "Blow the Whistle"- feel free to mix things out after, 'what's my favorite word'.I'm not sure what to do at this point, but I will tell you that I did about 12 other things while writing this. Which reminds me; we always hear that when you're doing multiple things, no ONE thing is ever done well. Case in point, people who walk and text at the same time are shitty pedestrians whom even auto-correct cannot save from sending such gems like, "did the hummus hump the rice".
(Which happened to me yesterday)