Staying focused

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Mogura

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Do you find it rather easy or difficult to stay focused in studies and/or work?

When it comes to studying or working on something that I find flat-out boring, it becomes mission impossible for me to stay focused. My mind wanders or I am distracted by some external stimuli (i.e., anything that is more interesting than what is sitting in front of me). This even happens when I am talking to someone on a subject that I find boring (I wonder if they can see it on my face that I've already tuned out? LOL.).

How about you?
 
Same here.
Can't focus unless I'm interested or care about the subject.

This also ocurrs in conversation.. but only after I've been forced to listen to someone take ten minutes tell me something that could have been said in thirty seconds to one minute.. I really dislike that... I went to a forum at school once and this guy asked a question and it took him 500 words to do it. I felt like I was drowning in words.

One of the worst is being forced to listen to someone tell you a looooooong story that they already told you last week.. and you have to pretend you've never heard it, or agonize for five minutes while pretending to listen about how to politely tell them you have already heard the story.
 
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all the time. . there is alwasy something more interesting for me then work. . there are people to talk to. . thngs to learn about them. . situations that I can get myself involved in. .there are times when it is very difficult to get anything done that I need to get done because of all the distractions. .
 
Something that I've noticed that I do is when I'm talking with someone, there is usually one thing they would say that I find interesting, then I find myself delving deeper into the concept to the point that I've lost all awareness that I've been talking to them. When I usually have something to say in regards to the concept that I found interesting, they have already moved to another point, one of which, have no clue what they are talking about since I was so entertained by something else they were talking about earlier....and that, just pisses me off lol
 
Mogura said:
When it comes to studying or working on something that I find flat-out boring, it becomes mission impossible for me to stay focused.
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Yup. I remember taking a Calculus course a few years ago when I was trying to go to med school. I would set up in the library, get all my notes, books and materials out, and then start on a problem.

Ten minutes later my eyes would suddenly snap back into focus at the tail end of some elaborate fantasy where I was saving an ancient kingdom with my vicious Muay Thai skills after vanquishing some asshole who happened to look and act like somebody I hated in high school (pure coincidence, that), etc etc.
 
Yea... The only study that I can focus on is the one that interests me. Usually when I can't focus at all, I will drink an energy drink and just try to force myself to.... If that doesn't work, then I finish my homework before class which is not a good thing to do in college, but it hasn't hurt my grades at all yet... Focusing is toooooo much sometimes.... I am always thinking of a million things at once
 
But sometimes I even have trouble focusing when I am studying/working on something that I enjoy. Not all of the time, but most of the time. The only exception being a really good book.

Anyone else?
 
Mogura said:
But sometimes I even have trouble focusing when I am studying/working on something that I enjoy. Not all of the time, but most of the time. The only exception being a really good book.

Anyone else?
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Of course. Ni is very hard to control. It tends to do what it wants. If something is concerning me, I have trouble getting it to focus on something else even when I want it to.
 
Mogura said:
Do you find it rather easy or difficult to stay focused in studies and/or work?

When it comes to studying or working on something that I find flat-out boring, it becomes mission impossible for me to stay focused. My mind wanders or I am distracted by some external stimuli (i.e., anything that is more interesting than what is sitting in front of me). This even happens when I am talking to someone on a subject that I find boring (I wonder if they can see it on my face that I've already tuned out? LOL.).

How about you?
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Mogura said:
But sometimes I even have trouble focusing when I am studying/working on something that I enjoy. Not all of the time, but most of the time. The only exception being a really good book.

Anyone else?
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I have experienced exactly what you describe
 
yeah, i used to suffer from 'add' but cutting out grains almost eliminated it. still though, if the task is undeniably boring, and unnecessary, i choose not to focus on it. always choice though.
if its necessary, i'll just suck it up and do it, no matter how boring.
 
AUM said:
Something that I've noticed that I do is when I'm talking with someone, there is usually one thing they would say that I find interesting, then I find myself delving deeper into the concept to the point that I've lost all awareness that I've been talking to them. When I usually have something to say in regards to the concept that I found interesting, they have already moved to another point, one of which, have no clue what they are talking about since I was so entertained by something else they were talking about earlier....and that, just pisses me off lol
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LOL same. I've missed out on conversations like this because they mention one thing I want to talk about, then move on so far down the road the topic I wanted to discuss is long gone and I realize they have no intention of revisiting it :( What makes it worse is that it usually isn't immediate; my mind would focus on the one topic they mentioned, think about it, dissect it, replay it and then come up with a question or thought about it, 15 minutes after it was mentioned. Pisses me off when it happens in classrooms/lectures and there's either no time to go back to the topic or the class ends before I can fully process that concept my brain was working on from 10 minutes ago.

Which then relates to "staying focused" since my head toys with an idea or concept it finds interesting over the one at hand. I find I can read a text book to chapter 10, find chapter 2 interesting and not realize I read 8 chapters after that. But if none of the chapters are interesting, my brain wanders so far off, I run the risk of falling asleep.
 
I should probably add that it takes some heavy medication to get me to focus or maintain a single strand of consciousness for any extended period of time. But then I'm too whacked out to be able to accomplish anything productive...
 
cant.. stay.. focused.. been a long time that any one things has been able to hold my fascination for long..
 
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