This is so true. I should probably leave my phone in another room while writing from now on. Also, when I use google music the ads pull me away from my story every couple songs. Great article! It’s helpful to be aware of these things.
So true. At times I just want to throw my phone out of the window and never look at it again. Alas, I do not have that type of discipline. And distraction loves undisciplined people unfortunately. Thanks for the comment, Winston!
Thanks, Shifra! Great article, the process of oscilating between different “neural networks” is interesting indeed. I think that might even happen while working on one thing. At least, I noticed that. When writing one paragraph, a completely new thought emerges, still related to what I am writing, but not something that completes the previous thought, something detached. Sometimes it's a new pattern my mind was able to recall, sometimes it's just an internal distraction. Sometimes it helps, thought. I believe that could be a result of constant context switching which we indeed have to find a way to adapt to, otherwise it's to easy to digress.
I also get distracted from my work, by the work itself. After posting this article I did some further research and came to find that we, as humans, are evolutionarily hardwired towards distraction. Apparently it helps with our fight or flight response! So maybe it is our body’s way of trying to perserve itself? By sending out small stimuli from within, in order to make us more aware of the world around us?
Ouch. I didn't even sign up for TikTok and it comes my way via Instagram and I cannot stop watching dancers . . .I wonder if we should take cues from this obsessive behaviour. I am looking up dance classes now: thank you!
This is so true. I should probably leave my phone in another room while writing from now on. Also, when I use google music the ads pull me away from my story every couple songs. Great article! It’s helpful to be aware of these things.
So true. At times I just want to throw my phone out of the window and never look at it again. Alas, I do not have that type of discipline. And distraction loves undisciplined people unfortunately. Thanks for the comment, Winston!
Thanks, Shifra! Great article, the process of oscilating between different “neural networks” is interesting indeed. I think that might even happen while working on one thing. At least, I noticed that. When writing one paragraph, a completely new thought emerges, still related to what I am writing, but not something that completes the previous thought, something detached. Sometimes it's a new pattern my mind was able to recall, sometimes it's just an internal distraction. Sometimes it helps, thought. I believe that could be a result of constant context switching which we indeed have to find a way to adapt to, otherwise it's to easy to digress.
I also get distracted from my work, by the work itself. After posting this article I did some further research and came to find that we, as humans, are evolutionarily hardwired towards distraction. Apparently it helps with our fight or flight response! So maybe it is our body’s way of trying to perserve itself? By sending out small stimuli from within, in order to make us more aware of the world around us?
Ouch. I didn't even sign up for TikTok and it comes my way via Instagram and I cannot stop watching dancers . . .I wonder if we should take cues from this obsessive behaviour. I am looking up dance classes now: thank you!