Attention Deficit Trait

 

Focus:  If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

 Introduction:

It's harder to pay attention in an A.D.D. world.  

We're surrounded by computer screens, cell phones, PDA's, TV's iPods, and bustling people and their demands --- all of them crying, "Look at me!".  

At work, they thwart even our best intentions to focus on and complete the job at hand -- much less over deliver.  

We may be the first generation to find that more information is actually making us dumber, and less productive.   

Harvard psychiatrist Edward Hallowell has invented a new name for this information-age-syndrome --- "Attention Deficit Trait" or ADT.  

Unlike attention deficit disorder, which has biological causes, ADT is a syndrome we give to ourselves.  

Hallowell claims that ADT mkes us increasingly  distracted, irritable, and restless - and, over the long term, underachieving.
 

It amounts to a form of self-inflicted failure.  

If we want to give a little extra to our job, to a project, to other people, to our family, we need to stop trying to do so many things at once.  


(Source:"The Power of Small" by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval)

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To help avoid ADT , Hallowell suggests abiding by some simple rules.....