As my research showed, multitasking, with its rapid attention-shifting, interruptions, and too much sustained focus, results in stress, and when this happens for a long time, it creates too much dominance of the sympathetic nervous system.

Practice meta-awareness to learn to recognize if your attentional resources are low and if you need a break.

intentionality; forethought; self-regulation; and self-reflection and corrective behavior.

Rote activities, which are associated with feeling positive, and which are easy to do, might also help us build up our resources.

“For those who give with joy, that joy is their reward.”[7]

inner worries, real or perceived, and their rapid attention-shifting appears to fan out to multiple places like email, Facebook, Instagram, news or online shopping. On the other hand, conscientious people seem to display attention-switching between fewer targets such as the task at hand and their diligent checking of email. In the same way that ind

Our research shows evidence that personality can play a role in influencing kinetic attention. Neurotics are distracted by

I will argue how it is critical to develop our own skills to self-regulate.

Since Neuroticism and the facet of Urgency in Impulsiveness are tied to more frequent attention-shifting, this suggests that there may be an underlying personality trait that we might call distractedness.