Thanks to these, our attention span is fast dwindling. It’s always on and always enticing us with more TikToks, more emails and more online shops. So much so that people working from home say that they spend up to two hours a day on social media.īut the chief executive distractor of our times is the smartphone. Thirteen years later, and we only have better smartphones and more addictive social media to distract us even more. In fact, they do it nearly half the time - or 47% according to a 2010 Harvard study. The problem with our minds is that they like to wander. Source: AFP Why it’s so hard to find focus
