Pay Attention

I started with listening with Attention: The *Real* Aphrodisiac since I always prefer to listen to assignments than read them. I noticed with this partial attention that has been growing with this fix of wanting to multitask with technology. Like during listening to Linda Stone's speech did I check my e-mail and write back to my family, but realize that I would stop to take in her words than continue with my e-mail. It was like my thought process was a car in traffic just going and stopping in order for me to get my work done. Then I had just had to log out of MSN because the orange blinking that "I've received a message" just took to much of my attention.

Even with listening to Bad At Multitasking? Blame Your Brain I would decide to start blogging on what I'm doing. It's just this sense that I have to do at least two things at once, but its more like I described it before as a traffic zone going on. I've noticed one thing when I started the second speech is that I would pause it because I would just get tired of sitting there. Then come back in order to finish it a few minutes later. Even when I'm reading Attention literacy I would stop reading it after awhile then check what I'm writing to make sure that I caught what I've just read. Though reading it on screen does help me more than having to read it on hard copy because I zone out a lot easier when reading a print out. That is one habit from public school that I never got out of. One thing I realized out of all this is that when one is self motivated to focus on something it goes along more, but keeping to that is hard when I keep thinking that I have distractions that must be attended to as in favorite TV show Big Bang Theory is playing so I must watch that instead. That is why I have to love the exit button because then I focus on that one tab alone without the gazillion of other tabs distracting me.