> Rather, it's that it's physically difficult if not painful to focus on the thing that evades my attention, so by comparison, anything else is better. If I ha

> Rather, it's that it's physically difficult if not painful to focus on the thing that evades my attention, so by comparison, anything else is better. If I had to describe the feeling it's the mental equivalent of trying to push the same poles of two strong magnets together, while the distractions are like trying to avoid the north-south poles from attracting to each other. Especially the part where as soon as you stop applying force (i.e. mental effort) it flips.