Mind Wandering is Inevitable Over Time - Neuroscience News

When you are trying to make yourself do something that lacks meaning, your attention will often slip and slide off it.

Stress shatters attention, and we were all more stressed.

Perhaps that is why so many of us have half-done tasks on our to-do lists and half-read books on our bedside tables, scroll through Instagram while simultaneously semi-watching Netflix, and swipe between apps and tabs endlessly, from when we first open our eyes until we finally fall asleep. One uncomfortable explanation for why so many aspects of m

So when I said I was distracted, I meant that I couldn’t narrow the spotlight of my attention down to the one thing I wanted to focus on.

a life full of distractions is, at an individual level, diminished.