About 3,000 years ago, King Solomon warned us, “Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions.” In 2015, the Chicago Tribune’s top 10 list of distractions ended with, “The most mind-blowing fact about distractions is that almost no one could possibly imagine… oh, look, it’s a cat video!”
Dealing with distractions has always been important. Nicholas Carr found that, in 2000, the average amount of time we could stay focused on one task without our mind wandering to something new was 12 seconds. Today, it’s eight. Joshua Becker comments, “The information age may be literally rewiring our brains.”
This rewiring may take a while, so let’s look at some things we can do in the meantime.
https://www.mindtools.com/blog/2016/08/15/distractions-addiction/