If you have a lot of trouble with deliberately directing your attention, you should probably ask a mental health doctor to evaluate you for ADD ("Attention Defi

If you have a lot of trouble with deliberately directing your attention, you should probably ask a mental health doctor to evaluate you for ADD ("Attention Deficit Disorder"). It's possible that you've had ADD all your life and covered for it with your high intelligence, but now that the demands on your attention are much higher in grad school, your deficit in allocating attention is becoming a problem.