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When I was younger I could lose myself in books, watch hours of tv, watch movies intently etc.....
Now....I fidget, daydream during movies, can't finish a book etc...
All I can handle now are 10 minute youtube clips....
Anyone else feel their attention span has gone to **** in the last few years....?
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YES!!!
and i blame it on the internet and the instant-ism of modern life.
i literally have zero attention span anymore-cant focus on anything that is hard for more than a couple seconds at a time. wont watch any youtube/online videos that are more than 5 minutes long. wont watch porn clip more than 4 minutes long. often times i find myself sitting staring at the yahoo mainpage just trying to think of something to type into the search. i literally waste so much time just looking for instant, brief moments of cheap entertainment.
as soon as i get my new place im going to purposely not get cable or internet...it is seriously fucking with my productivity and outlook on life
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Absolutely. I hardly can even watch a fuckin movie, too long and too much effort. A book.....???? hahaha, good one.
Fuck the internet!!
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this is true, I'm trying to finnish the book about luciferian witchraft... read maby 4 pages a day... most of the time I allready know what "things" are going to say in advance so i just whanna skip everything... except bitches.
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YES!!!
and i blame it on the internet and the instant-ism of modern life.
i literally have zero attention span anymore-cant focus on anything that is hard for more than a couple seconds at a time. wont watch any youtube/online videos that are more than 5 minutes long. wont watch porn clip more than 4 minutes long. often times i find myself sitting staring at the yahoo mainpage just trying to think of something to type into the search. i literally waste so much time just looking for instant, brief moments of cheap entertainment.
as soon as i get my new place im going to purposely not get cable or internet...it is seriously fucking with my productivity and outlook on life
Exactly! I hate those 30-40 minutes long tube8 clips - I forward to the 10th minute and the bitch is still in lingerie and chats with the cameraman about her boring life! >:(
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Ahh,what are we talking about again ???
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Exactly! I hate those 30-40 minutes long tube8 clips - I forward to the 10th minute and the bitch is still in lingerie and chats with the cameraman about her boring life! >:(
ahah yes, if im just trying to crack one off its not like im going to sit there and get through 40 fucking minutes anyway
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Since I don't have a TV I can't mention on that, but I can read for hours upon hours. The only thing I'm struggling with is listening to songs all the way through. I watch about 3 movies a years and it's the kind I would enjoy so I watch it all the way through without a hitch.
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case in point - today i could have done yardwork, research, looked for a 'great new career', clean up the house, etc...but what did i do? spend about 5-6 hours sitting on the internet trying to find something to entertain me for a few moments, in between surfing getbig every 5 minutes >:(
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When I was younger I could lose myself in books, watch hours of tv, watch movies intently etc.....
Now....I fidget, daydream during movies, can't finish a book etc...
All I can handle now are 10 minute youtube clips....
Anyone else feel their attention span has gone to **** in the last few years....?
I agree. 10 minute of video is good for me in one sitting.
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What?
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Can't watch movies at all, barely get through a 30 minute TV show and that's rare. When I was young I could watch tv for hours on end, now days it's just not the same. Simple things like books and tv's don't cut it anymore. I never even go see a movie at a theater unless I'm dying to see it which is rare. I can sit through The Ulimate Fighter and watch UFC or good boxing matches but that's it
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Yessir! Thank heavens I read all the big books and watched all the epics when I had the energy. Can't remember them, mind you, but they're off the list.
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Exactly! I hate those 30-40 minutes long tube8 clips - I forward to the 10th minute and the bitch is still in lingerie and chats with the cameraman about her boring life! >:(
You kids don't know how good you have it.
When I was growing up, if we wanted to see porn, we had to go to some sleazy theatre in Times Square and sit through an hour-long film, that had, maybe, fifteen minutes of sex involving Ron Jeremy, in a boy scout uniform, and some big-bushed broad who believed she was an actress and not a whore.
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You kids don't know how good you have it.
When I was growing up, if we wanted to see porn, we had to go to some sleazy theatre in Times Square and sit through an hour-long film, that had, maybe, fifteen minutes of sex involving Ron Jeremy and some big-bushed broad who believed she was an actress and not a whore.
yeah and you have the nerve to say we 20 year olds have so much to learn ::)
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When I was younger I could lose myself in books, watch hours of tv, watch movies intently etc.....
Now....I fidget, daydream during movies, can't finish a book etc...
All I can handle now are 10 minute youtube clips....
Anyone else feel their attention span has gone to **** in the last few years....?
Yep. I struggle watching a full movie from beginning to end - I can only do it at the cinema but that's only because I'm forced to. I can't watch sport for very long either - long gone are the days when I could sit through a game of football.
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When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy. That Can Change Your Life. By David D. Burns, M.D
http://www.amazon.com/When-Panic-Attacks-Drug-Free-Anxiety/dp/076792083X
have a good read.
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yeah and you have the nerve to say we 20 year olds have so much to learn ::)
I feel bad for you young guys. When I was 20, you could actually talk to a girl. Today, with IPODs, cellphones, texting, twitter etc., you can't get a word in, edgewise.
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case in point - today i could have done yardwork, research, looked for a 'great new career', clean up the house, etc...but what did i do? spend about 5-6 hours sitting on the internet trying to find something to entertain me for a few moments, in between surfing getbig every 5 minutes >:(
Bingo, same here. I think technology has something to do with this. When everything is "at your finger tips" you become bored with a movie or a book seems you are just "waiting for the end or punchline" I got the same issue. What is the answer?
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Bingo, same here. I think technology has something to do with this. When everything is "at your finger tips" you become bored with a movie or a book seems you are just "waiting for the end or punchline" I got the same issue. What is the answer?
When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy. That Can Change Your Life. By David D. Burns, M.D
http://www.amazon.com/When-Panic-Attacks-Drug-Free-Anxiety/dp/076792083X
have a good read.
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I feel bad for you young guys. When I was 20, you could actually talk to a girl. Today, with IPODs, cellphones, texting, twitter etc., you can't get a word in, edgewise.
but not young girls? don't be such a... you know... ::)
When it comes to talking to girls I love it ALOT because I love to smile to girls, meaning I do talk to girls, but now days girls have gone from sweet to sweet at a price, so don't go all like... you know... ::), because it's not all black and white
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Bingo, same here. I think technology has something to do with this. When everything is "at your finger tips" you become bored with a movie or a book seems you are just "waiting for the end or punchline" I got the same issue. What is the answer?
i think the only answer is to cut it out completely and try to gradually 'unlearn' it... :-\
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Yep someone here posted they were going to turn off their cable, I think thats a start only I dont have the guts to do it yet.
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Yep someone here posted they were going to turn off their cable, I think thats a start only I dont have the guts to do it yet.
it's a lot easier when you have something to replace it . As for everything, if you have a substitute (a better one of course) it helps a lot. Study, read, train, play a sport, care about your kid etc... Take control of your life.
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When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy. That Can Change Your Life. By David D. Burns, M.D
http://www.amazon.com/When-Panic-Attacks-Drug-Free-Anxiety/dp/076792083X
have a good read.
Have you read this uberman? if so did it help? , seems interesting but the baseline issue is the topic of the thread its tough to read nowdays due to attention span..
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i feel the same
Getbig and its funny ownings can do that to a person
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Have you read this uberman? if so did it help? , seems interesting but the baseline issue is the topic of the thread its tough to read nowdays due to attention span..
of course, i only mention books i have read.
This one with emotional intelligence by daniel goleman will just change your life for ever, as simple as that.
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of course, i only mention books i have read.
This one with emotional intelligence by daniel goleman will just change your life for ever, as simple as that.
I might try it thanks for the info
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Exactly! I hate those 30-40 minutes long tube8 clips - I forward to the 10th minute and the bitch is still in lingerie and chats with the cameraman about her boring life! >:(
lolol good to know im not the only one
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Actually I've been feeling like this lately too. I think it's the internet.
Pretty son i'm gonna unplug myself from all technology and go into the wild for a while to get my head straight.
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When I was younger I could lose myself in books, watch hours of tv, watch movies intently etc.....
Now....I fidget, daydream during movies, can't finish a book etc...
All I can handle now are 10 minute youtube clips....
Anyone else feel their attention span has gone to **** in the last few years....?
I am not too sure about the question or topic I didn't read the whole thing....oh wow look at that bird flying...
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I actually feel like mine has increased. Its weird... If I'm focused on something people will talk to me and I wouldn't hear anything and they really have to put an effort to get me out of my "zone"
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When I was younger I could lose myself in books, watch hours of tv, watch movies intently etc.....
Now....I fidget, daydream during movies, can't finish a book etc...
All I can handle now are 10 minute youtube clips....
Anyone else feel their attention span has gone to **** in the last few years....?
YES. It's horrible, this site is a bad habit!
Too much working out or dieting doesn't give you the energy to concentrate also.
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being focused like everything else is something you can learn / unlearn.
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I turned off my pay tv five years ago.
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me and my wife watch bill o'reilly together every evening and most of the time i cant make it through the whole episode, like the thread starter said i get fidgety and then usually go get ice cream instead :D
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me and my wife watch bill o'reilly together every evening and most of the time i cant make it through the whole episode, like the thread starter said i get fidgety and then usually go get ice cream instead :D
Bill O' Reilly is garbage for people who are too stupid to read real books about politics and history.