https://twitter.com/LamarElimbo/status/1631869464986697728?s=20
Your phone dings with a notification 🚨
You're an aspiring writer in the middle of:
a) writing a piece trying to emulate your fav author
b) reading a bio on your fav author
c) watching a vid with your fav author
During which one are you least/most likely to look at your phone?
When we're susceptible to distractions, we're probably not fully engaged with the activity we're doing.
We often talk about changing our environment: phone on silent or in another room.
But we should also figure out ways to align our tasks with our preferred engagement styles.
- Using distracting places as a tool to figure out what you enjoy most. When I’m coding or writing I’m not easily bothered by distractions. When I’m doing something boring however, the opposite is true.
- Where do we give our full attention
- How can distracting places be used as a tool
- How can they be used to figure out what interests us
- How can they be used to figure out what process strategies work best for us
- How can they be used in schools to help uncover individual children’s preferences
- What processes do distracting environments help with; creativity
- What does it say about a person who can’t cope with distractions in any context
- What are healthy distractions
- When do/should we invite them into our lives
- When are distractions adaptive
- Which activities make it difficult to notice distractions
- What’s the correlation between getting in the flow and being susceptible to distractions
- How can we design more healthy distractions into a space