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As “someone who gets distracted very easily,” he made the change to reclaim his attention span. Ditching his laptop gave him an environment where “YouTube isn’t around the corner” and he can focus on his reading.

This is just avoiding the issue of having a short attention span.

Reminds me a lot of fellow classmates at my college who I discovered hate online classes because they say they can’t stay focused. So I don’t know how these “luddite” students plan to not get distracted when their job will most likely involve sitting in front of a computer.

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antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I used to be easily distracted during online lectures yet had little difficulty following live lectures. It’s a fundamentally different experience, for whatever reason.

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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I had the opposite experience, in person lectures drove me crazy as an unmedicated adhder, I’d be constantly chiming in and answering every question, my legs would be going wild under the table and I’d usually be just doing something else most of the time on the laptop. Online is much much easier to listen to and get invested in at your own time and pace because you can be eating or vaping while watching at 3AM or whatever and nobody gives a fuck
  
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  - Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Doodle. I always doodled in my notes. Repeating patterns worked for me, because I am no artist.
    
    I am still unmedicated, and method helped me a lot with lectures using pencil snd paper for notes.
    
    Everyones different, I failed my online college courses. In person, I do alright. You may like online better.
    
    But if you’re forced to sit in lecture, fuckin doodle.
    
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Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Attention span is cultivated, so is discipline. Reading about it is theory. Forcing oneself to do it, in increasingly sizable chunks, is praxis. I'm talking to myself here, too.

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DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

This is just avoiding the issue of having a short attention span.

And how do you improve your attention span? By not having distractions available to you.

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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That sounds like he’s just not going to be well adjusted for the modern world where distractions will always be available. You don’t get over a love for a drug by making it unavailable, you get over it by having it everywhere, yet refusing it.
  
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