You are focused on working and before you realize it you are staring out the window. You’ve most likely experienced it before. This is what we call distraction. It causes you to focus your attention on something else instead of the thing you should be doing, but sometimes it can also be nice to be distracted for a while, like a colleague walking by or a beautiful memory suddenly comes to mind.
In this part of the workshop, we will give you more information about distractions and how you can get more control over them. In recent years, technologies are more and more integrated into our daily lives. Therefore we will base our examples on this.
We’ll start at the beginning, the cause. Distraction is caused by the lack of attention or lack of interest in your task. You’re currently seeing something more interesting (though often less productive) compared to what you need to do. The result of distraction is that the average person checks their phone 200 to 500 times every day, checks their mail, looks at social media, … this lowers your focus and produces mediocre results.