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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Sorry, just had to look back at the question.....
No, I have not generally suffered from that but do have to work harder at concentrating for more than five or ten minutes.
Obviously it depends on the subject and our individuality - including interest, need, tiredness, environment etc., so we cannot have any fixed ability to concentrate on any given thing. It will vary naturally!
How true is the common belief that so many of us now have the attention-spans of a goldfish? Too many journalists parrot this mantra but never question it.
Nevertheless certain commercial interests exploit flightiness and impatience, reflected in pop-music, e-posts, journey times, denigrating practical skills, and the like.
Very highly-educated people at work moaned about their office computers' "slow" starting - a minute or so for the PCs of the time. Yet these people did not start work immediately on arrival: a mug of tea and greeting colleagues came first!
Motorists moaned about the speed-limit on barely a mile of local road between two 30mph areas, being cut from 50 to 40mph: the time-extension is < 20 seconds.
In one managers' presentation, the Personnel Manager* used that idiotic phrase "going forward" so often, I stopped listening and mentally planned my weekend instead.
I expect if we are honest there were plenty of times over our lives when we were totally absorbed in something for three hours, and others when managed barely three minutes!
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* I abhor and abjure that dreadful, very impersonal, "Human Resources" title, and always addressed documents to that office as, "Personnel, Room 123".
No, I have not generally suffered from that but do have to work harder at concentrating for more than five or ten minutes.
Obviously it depends on the subject and our individuality - including interest, need, tiredness, environment etc., so we cannot have any fixed ability to concentrate on any given thing. It will vary naturally!
How true is the common belief that so many of us now have the attention-spans of a goldfish? Too many journalists parrot this mantra but never question it.
Nevertheless certain commercial interests exploit flightiness and impatience, reflected in pop-music, e-posts, journey times, denigrating practical skills, and the like.
Very highly-educated people at work moaned about their office computers' "slow" starting - a minute or so for the PCs of the time. Yet these people did not start work immediately on arrival: a mug of tea and greeting colleagues came first!
Motorists moaned about the speed-limit on barely a mile of local road between two 30mph areas, being cut from 50 to 40mph: the time-extension is < 20 seconds.
In one managers' presentation, the Personnel Manager* used that idiotic phrase "going forward" so often, I stopped listening and mentally planned my weekend instead.
I expect if we are honest there were plenty of times over our lives when we were totally absorbed in something for three hours, and others when managed barely three minutes!
.........
* I abhor and abjure that dreadful, very impersonal, "Human Resources" title, and always addressed documents to that office as, "Personnel, Room 123".
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I can focus....sorry - what were we talking about?
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