Stable emotional status needed to have sharp focus

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The thing is though our ability to deliver hinges significantly on our ability to filter out the distractions and concentrate on what one needs to get done, in other words the ability to focus.

Some reports say that in the year 2000, the average concentration span meaning focusing on one task without being distracted was 12 seconds. In 2003 that had dropped down to 8 seconds, which is about the same as a gold fish they say. I do not know pray, how and why we would need to know how long the attention span of a gold fish is, much less even knowing a gold fish in our context, however, the point I think that these type of information makes is that we have got so many things happening in our spaces, so fast that it is increasingly becoming very difficult to focus on the task at hand from start to finish, within reason as understandably some tasks take years. Even in the absence of well-researched hard data evidencing this, I would argue that certainly it an area of struggle. I sometimes have to turn off my data whenever I have to do some serious work for 2-3 hours at a time so that I can have no interruptions. The interruptions will come in the form of Twitter, Facebook and the notorious WhatsApp. We seem to have somehow all developed a huge sense of needing to consume so much information at a time that we now even have phobias linked to this subject matter. Recently I was visiting a good friend of mine and in conversation, he alluded to having serious FOMO! So, being puzzled and wondering if that was a new term in the medical world, I asked him what FOMO was and he responded simply stating “Fear of Missing Out”. Of course we laughed loudly about it but it got me thinking that it is actually a serious phenomenon, we are terrified of being the last to know, or not knowing at all.

Stable emotional status needed to have sharp focus

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