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Personally, I am extremely bad at resisting distraction. Remote working is tough for me because if I'm in a meeting with some interesting and some boring parts,

Personally, I am extremely bad at resisting distraction. Remote working is tough for me because if I'm in a meeting with some interesting and some boring parts, the moment a boring part starts I'll just quickly check my e-mails, and then I won't notice when the meeting gets interesting again. I grew up before the era of laptops and smartphones, and came up with a bunch of strategies to avoid distraction - revising for an exam? If it's a less interesting subject, it's got to be printed media only, in the library, in silence. Because I knew, no matter how long it took me to find an answer in books, finding it online would take longer with the inevitable distraction taken into account. I'm glad I never had to attend video lectures, or have a laptop on my desk in school, because I would have failed for sure.

tfandango 3y ago
On the issue with getting distracted on calls while working from home. I do the same, not because I am easily distracted but because I have a lot of work to do, and you are sitting there in front of your work, so you get back to it. On some calls, I think this is ok. For calls where I really should be listening though, I often do some mindless chore like folding laundry or doing dishes. Very easy then to concentrate on the call while satisfying your need to get things done at the same time.