Are you good at focusing when it comes to work, school and tasks?

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Ahh the struggle is reeeeal. I only slept 3 hours due to some bullshit. And I’m honestly already over that because we both played our part. Buuuut, anyways, my attention span has always sucked 🤣 Im trying to do these trainings for work and its videos of listening to someone talk and yea I’m not an active listener so I’m failing these quizzes and having to redo them. 😂 I finally found a video transcript so I can just skim wtf they’re saying instead. And don’t even get me started on multitasking. I suuuuck. Yet never got caught up  🤷‍♀️ #FeelFreeToList

Oliverlogan263 · Accepted Answer

For real, focusing when you're tired is the absolute worst. Props for even doing the trainings after only sleeping 3 hours, I woulda just slept through my shift or called out sick lol.

I feel you on having a short attention span too, listening to people talk forever is torture. Good idea finding the transcript to skim, way easier than actually paying attention the whole time. Multitasking is another struggle, I can barely handle one task at a time most days.

When I'm tired my brain just wants to zone out or do anything but what I'm supposed to be doing. Maybe see if you can break up the videos into shorter sections with breaks in between? Or play them at 1.5x speed so it's over quicker haha.

Snacks and caffeine sometimes help me focus too when I'm dragging ass. Just power through it however you can, hopefully your boss cuts you some slack since you're running on no sleep. You got this! Just take it one task at a time.

Anonymous · Answer

Sometimes

Lliam · Answer

It depends on what it is.

For the most part, though, when I want to get something done - like a design project, building project, writing, or class assignment - I want to 1) get it done asap and 2) get it done right. So, once I am focused and in the zone, I can develop tunnel vision. Time disappears and I'm super efficient.
If I have to take a break, it's hard to get back in that zone again.

When it came to my job, I learned it by heart as quickly as possible. That way, I had to put in minimal effort to do the job perfectly and quickly. I had a friend who was a manager at my company once say that it didn't take him all day to do an 8 hour job.
I wanted to be able finish what needed to be done so that I could disappear without being noticed.

I also look ahead with an eye to making my life easier.
I would get my school studies done early so that I wouldn't have to worry about them.
At work, I would finish up everything possible by the end of day so that I wouldn't have a back log the next morning.

Again, all that is to give me as much free time as possible. I used to joke that work got in the way of my personal life.

ohsheeT · Answer

Yeah there are so many different things in life that I put myself through that I say that I want to do and I want to learn but the attention span is just not there and I don't understand that

I can be on the job or I can be building something and I mean I'm the most detailed.
The most precise.
I see things coming at me 500 yards before I get to them and I'm taking care of them before I even get there and I love being that person I love doing that

It's the same thing with making love having sex the exact same thing I can see it feel it tasted touch it before it happens I know which direction I'm going to go everything's in fine fine detail

But if I was to take an online class to learn something it's like I'm just floating in the air I'm not concentrating I'm just not all the way focused I'm not all the way there and I don't understand I say I want to do it

But I just can't get in the zone I can't get in tune with it and that really messes my brain up because I like being good at everything LOL

For me there are just some things in life that I love more than others

There are some things that I want to be 100% into

and there are things that I just can't get into that I want to.

But I just don't get myself to do it and I don't understand why

HitsyHonesty · Answer

Only if the instruction is clear... because I am learning a new task and things are vague as fuck! "How about you go do djdbskdnfbdnbd..." and they leave and you can't ask them. They want things to go fast, but don't put in the time to properly show you the ropes. It gets hard to focus. Girslaskguys will help me kill the time!

JDavid25 · Answer

Depends... I can definitely focus when I feel motivated, and am interested of course.. But usually I slack off immensely.. I would have liked to be well versed in Software engineering by now, enough to at least get an entry level job, but I've been slacking off so much it's not even funny.. Lol..

RavVid · Answer

I'm pretty good at focusing but only on one think at a time. If I tried listening to a podcast and reading at the same I'd only take one in. OK they are both verbal skills but it would be the same if it was a graph or some visual task.

At a time I did try to multi-task a lot more but I just did more thinks badly.

DaBiggestBird · Answer

School, I can focus like Jackie Chan training a little black kid. Tasks, if I can do it I can do it. Work, I find myself being able to focus more at school and “get in the mood”/have fun while when I do it at home, it feels like homework which is weird

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I've also been stressed out cause I had all these debts and my parents are on vacation and not able to help me out. I have friends and cousins that can bail me out but it goes against my principles to ask for hand outs when I'm not sick or desperate.

electromagnetic · Answer

I work well under pressure is exactly that. I can put soo much effort into my work during the course of a week and by the end, I won’t be happy. Not until I’ve done it 2hrs before it’s due.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

At work yeah, because I mostly like what I do. With school work I slacked off almost automatically, because there was so much uninteresting and/or complicated shit to learn... ugh...

mandyfire98 · Answer

My attention span is pretty much non existent. It's so hard for me to keep my focus on most things.

Anpu23 · Answer

NO, here I am on G@G when I have work to do. That should say enough LOL. But I can become hyper focused when I need to, but today for sure I am slacking.

ShadezMcgee · Answer

I am when I am motivated and want to get shit done. Otherwise I operate Hawaii time, meaning it gets done when it gets done.

Shark_61695 · Answer

If I'm doing something, I can get a little obsessed. If I get distracted, I find it difficult to get back into the flow.

DJB72 · Answer

I have ADHD so it's not my greatest strength unless I get hyperstimulated, in which case I can lose a day and forget to eat.

iron_ninjs · Answer

Only if it's something I enjoy, or like. I have laser focus then. Otherwise, it's how much I'm interested. If I'm not interested at all, I can't focus at all.

MysticDevice · Answer

If I'm getting paid my focus is razor sharp. But school? Ha. Other than getting paid there was nothing on this earth that could make me focus in school. Its a miracle I graduated with the level of apathy I had for that institution.

nawtee_me · Answer

When I was in college this helped me a lot.

Lynx122 · Answer

At school I was quite good because I loved learning and we had structure but learning or working independently is impossible for me.

AimeeKyle · Answer

When there are deadlines, yes. When there aren’t, usually (especially if I am motivated about a given topic/task. If not, it can be a challenge sometimes.

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