Difficulty concentrating: A mental slipperiness, like trying not to think of something, or clench water in your fist. The harder I attempt to concentrate, the more prone my mind is to go zipping off in another direction entirely. I tend to be most productive when I have a large number of potential tasks to work on, and one critical one—I’ll get all my lesser tasks done in no time at all, as my mind careens off the critical task over and over again. I’m least productive when I have a single task to work on, particularly if it’s trivial to do. Indeed, the faster I can get it done, the harder it is to do it.
Curiously, I have -zero- problems with difficulty concentrating when extremely tired, and if there’s something I really need to do that I’m making no progress on, I’ll generally do it around 3:30-4:30 AM.
Curiously, I have -zero- problems with difficulty concentrating when extremely tired
Not sure it’s uncommon, I have a similar mode when I’m exhausted and still need to finish something. It’s a kinda “you’re not going anywhere until this is done” mode and when I’m tired my speed goes down, but my ability to focus goes up.
I find that it is much easier to enter a state of flow late at night. This does not equate, in my case, to being able to concentrate on undesirable tasks, but does help with tasks that are simply boring.
Difficulty concentrating: A mental slipperiness, like trying not to think of something, or clench water in your fist. The harder I attempt to concentrate, the more prone my mind is to go zipping off in another direction entirely. I tend to be most productive when I have a large number of potential tasks to work on, and one critical one—I’ll get all my lesser tasks done in no time at all, as my mind careens off the critical task over and over again. I’m least productive when I have a single task to work on, particularly if it’s trivial to do. Indeed, the faster I can get it done, the harder it is to do it.
Curiously, I have -zero- problems with difficulty concentrating when extremely tired, and if there’s something I really need to do that I’m making no progress on, I’ll generally do it around 3:30-4:30 AM.
Not sure it’s uncommon, I have a similar mode when I’m exhausted and still need to finish something. It’s a kinda “you’re not going anywhere until this is done” mode and when I’m tired my speed goes down, but my ability to focus goes up.
I find that it is much easier to enter a state of flow late at night. This does not equate, in my case, to being able to concentrate on undesirable tasks, but does help with tasks that are simply boring.