I’ve got you for no more than 30 seconds!
That’s the data for our attention span for screen time. For blog posts, I have to reduce my verbosity to 400-600 words and give you two images to allow your brains to “rest” to process the information I have shared.
It’s stunning how our abilities to pay attention are plummeting! We are surrounded by too many things whose primary purpose is to distract us!
In a world of constant distraction, how do we learn to focus and pay attention?
As we work with others, how do we focus our collective attentions?
We cannot address the real challenges we, our organizations, and our customers face in 30 second increments. Given the realities of what we each face, how do we catch our own, and other’s attention?
While I’m exercising (or perhaps exorcising) my odd humor in this post, the reality is our collective inability to pay attention limits our ability to get things done, and limits our potential!
I’m interested in turning this to a discussion, not reiterating the problem, but learning what people are doing to increase their abilities to pay attention, to be engaged? What’s working individually? What’s working as you engage in groups?
Please add your ideas in the comments. I’ll do another post leveraging your suggestions. Thanks for your help!
I know this is supposed to be 400-600 words according to the new “inattentiveness standards.” I’m 162-362 short. Enjoy the gift 😉
