If it feels like you can’t go a second without being distracted, well, that’s not an exaggeration. It’s actually happening MORE than that.
According to a new study, your brain’s attention span does NOT hold steady, it’s constantly flickering, even within seconds.
Even when it seems like you’re focused, your brain is actually vulnerable to distractions, around SEVEN times every SECOND. Most of the time, your brain is able to tune them out, but any one of them COULD divert you.
And you can’t really prevent it. Even when you KNOW a distraction is coming, and where it will appear, human brains cannot “fully override these vulnerability windows, the brain’s architecture makes brief openness unavoidable.”
