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This is not especially surprising. It's not that I can't focus. I can, for hours and hours and hours on end. The difficulty is directing that focus productively
by zeta0134 2y ago
This is not especially surprising. It's not that I can't focus. I can, for hours and hours and hours on end. The difficulty is directing that focus productively. High stress environments provide the necessary motivation, forcing my focus onto the thing demanding that attention more strongly than the usual cacophony of distractions. But high stress also leads to burnout; I can't sustain that for months on end, so I have to cope in other ways most of the time. (Typically by altering my environment to reduce distractions.)
- Cruncharoo 2y agoI agree. For whatever reason if I have 10 things to do or 1 thing to do I make completing them take the same amount of time.
- ycombinete 2y agoParkinson’s Law: work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- taneq 2y agoI like to joke that it's an array indexing issue. Some people loop through their array task list starting at 1 instead of 0, and so if they only have one task it never gets started. :P