Does anyone else feel like their attention span didn’t disappear, it just got redirected
I used to think my attention span was getting worse, but I’m starting to think it just shifted instead of disappeared.
I can’t sit through a movie without checking my phone, but I can spend two hours deep in random videos without even noticing time pass. I struggle to focus on one thing, but somehow I can bounce between five things and stay mentally engaged the whole time.
The other night I was playing on my phone and ended up going from one video to another to a comment thread to looking something up, and suddenly it was way later than I expected. I wasn’t bored at all, just constantly switching. It makes me wonder if it’s not that we can’t focus, it’s that we’ve trained ourselves to prefer constant input instead of sustained attention.
I don’t even know if that’s good or bad, but it definitely feels different from how things used to be. Does anyone else feel like their brain didn’t get worse at focusing, it just got used to a different kind of focus?