Why do you constantly “want to be distracted by something else”?

Question

IT education

Hello everyone
I don’t know where to turn, so I hope that there are people who have a similar problem and maybe someone coped with it
I noticed strange behavior behind me: I constantly want to distract myself from my work. It doesn't matter what I do - work or watch a movie. Moreover, I can distinguish when I'm distracted because of boredom, and when it's because of *here is the name of the pathology, because of which I created this topic*
For example:
1) Today I fixed one bug at work for a long time and I fed up. I climbed into Habr to see if there are new articles there - I consider this to be normal behavior
2) After watching Sherlock, I was inspired to look for information on how to learn the deduction method. It was REALLY interesting to me, but while the page was loading, I suddenly wanted to change the profile picture on the Toaster. I realize that my avatar didn’t give up on anyone here, but I’m just starting to do it! Then I climb into Photoshop to sprinkle and so merge for 20 minutes!
While waiting, I can rewind someone's insta feed to the very beginning, spending 5 minutes of time. I can get on the marketplace to change the content of the post about the sale. Moreover, sometimes I even understand the senselessness of this behavior, but "I want to finish what I started, because I have already started winding this damn tape of photos"!
I used different methods of dealing with *here is the name of the pathology, because of which I created this topic*. He promised, swore, kept a diary - there is a temporary success, then a new one. I thought about getting a tattoo on my arm, like in the movie "Remember".
Therefore, I ask for your advice - how to be? How does is called? How to fight? Strength of will? Awareness? shrink?
Thank you for your attention.

Answer 1

It's like what's called "burnout". The brain gets tired of doing the task and it “rests” in any way. The reverse situation is called "work binge", when you code fiercely for two days on caffeine.
This is such a brain and nothing can be done about it. But you can organize the process: write a work plan, sort out the tasks by importance / complexity, and when you feel that you will trample, open the list and do it.
In the phase when everything has gone to hell, be sure to replace it with anyoffline business. Pokapitanyu: the best rest is a change of activity. Going to the next tab and scrolling through memes is not a change in activity. For myself, I noticed that physical activity helps the most. Somehow, I knew this for a long time, but like a lazy ass, I just nodded to myself: like yes yes, cap, I know. Everyone is aware. But laziness. Then there was a repair in the apartment and away we go. Whether you like it or not, you had to sweat offline. Here this theory was confirmed in practice, productivity really increased. The phases of "binge drinking" and "rest" are more or less equalized: for productive work, eachthe day was about 3-5 hours, the phases “oh, memes” and “someone is wrong on the Internet” became much less, then completely disappeared. Then the repair was over, and the habit had already developed (it takes three weeks, and often less, to develop any habit), and I liked its consequences so much that, raising my ass, I went to the gym, which I had planned for the last couple of years. And I'll tell you a secret - there is no better option.
After talking with people who are “professional bumps”, that is, who burn with their results in the gym, I saw that they treat rest as an integral part of work : there is no such attitude in any field of activity. That is, for them, work is right and it’s time to work hard, it’s right to rest on time. Without any of the parts, there will be no result.
Zozhnik did not work out of me, but the problem disappeared from the topic. Having moved to another city, I replaced the rocking chair with a simple great: a couple of hours to ride the same rules.
Happy New Year, cats!

Answer 2

Monkey rules))
https://youtu.be/0u3bccaRmmg

Answer 3

At one time, your parents controlled you. time has passed ... and now you are in charge of what and how to do. and you .... let's be frank .... spread snot. look for reasons where there are none. you have a syndrome of high demands and chronic laziness! the first .... is the unwillingness to put up with your level of perception and information processing. you think that you can be Lomonosov. you can not! otherwise they would have become a long time ago. the second does not require an explanation). how to fight the second we were all taught in childhood

Answer 4

I had a period when I moved and for a year and a half, I practically did not communicate with people offline (I also worked at home), but I was wondering what was going on with anyone, so I often went to social networks to chat with acquaintances / friends , look at their photos, remember the old days. And when I started to teach / code something, I was constantly distracted. Over time, communication with friends faded away and I just looked for funny pictures and videos on social networks. When I woke up in the morning, I took the phone and started flipping through the news feed on the social network.
Self-development in that period was as follows:
I easily caught fire and after reading an article on habré about arduino, I ordered an arduino for myself, while the package arrived, I was no longer interested. Two weeks later, raspberry caught fire, two more weeks later mathematics, then physics, then just art literature, then arduino again, and so on every two weeks. I have a huge number of unfinished courses on stepik. As a result, I did not learn anything, the information in my head was not structured, and within a month I simply simply forgot everything.
A few months later, I realized that I spend in the social. networks about 4-6 hours a day. I gave up VK, and experienced discomfort in the first two weeks, then it became easier, and I could already spend about a week analyzing any task and I liked it. Falling asleep, I thought about possible solutions, waking up, I sat down to work. And everything was fine, but after a while I broke down again, and returned not to social networks, but to Counter-Strike 1.6, but more likely just to chat with the players, I watched films several times a week. And that's it, studying something and work faded into the background, and for two months I again fell out of life. Every day, when I was playing, I reproached myself for not doing anything, because of this I was angry with myself. From this anger, the lack of real communication, I fell into depression, went to the doctor, and I was prescribed antidepressants.
Around this time, I returned to my hometown, where I was able to reconnect with old friends. True, if before leaving I wanted to see my friends often, now it’s no more than 4 times a month (often less often), I spend the rest of the time studying, working, reading useful books. I don’t use social networks, I don’t like new films, and even science fiction, which I used to really like, now seems kind of dry, meaningless.
Rejecting all social networks, leaving only YouTube (for the last two weeks, these are only official Unity video tutorials and some playlists with music), seeing friends, on average 2-4 times a month, to drink coffee (usually it does not take more than 2-3 hours), I have the ability to work on tasks for 6-10 hours a day, being distracted only by eating and a couple of smoke breaks. At the same time, teaching has changed a lot and I can study one discipline for several months.
In general, get rid of the informational noise, look for only useful literature for yourself, and you yourself will see how your thinking will change.

Answer 5

Attention Deficit Syndrome. Athletes stop it with amphetamines.

Answer 6

Because when you're distracted your brain thinks you're doing something important and you're so good at it that your brain releases some happiness hormones.
It's not all that scary as long as you can do your job well. If this interferes with work, then it helps well not to go to social networks, mail, news sites, etc. until you have finished what needs to be done. Those. use the Internet only as documentation for the current task.
Over time, you will get used to the fact that first work and everything else at lunch or after the completion of the desired task.
If this does not interfere with work, then be distracted by health, the main result is the result and how much time it took, and whether you were distracted or not is not so important.

Answer 7

brain needs to multitask

Answer 8

The best article in the world on this topic!
Don't be lazy and read to the end!

Answer 9

Of course, I'm not a psychologist, and maybe you really have some kind of rare disease that needs to be treated, but, IMHO, it's just laziness, you just need to force yourself not to be distracted.
PS
How to solve the problem with the concentration?
How to deal with lack of focus?

Answer 10

First of all, turn off the Internet. And buy a thick guide to the used jap / technology to look only into it.
It happens to me often myself - I can mess around for a whole week. Moreover, I noticed from my own experience that the desire to do nothing is directly proportional to your hourly rate and experience. When I was just starting to work, it was normal for me to plow 50 hours a week and I didn’t even get tired. And now at least 15-20 does not always come out, although there is more than enough work.

Answer 11

Cool comment
. It certainly doesn't answer your "why" question. The wikipedia article gives various reasons.
We have a very stressful job. How to plow in a mine for 12 hours, only for brains. We must be able to do everything at once, and there is absolutely no way to get comfortable with at least some kind of technology. The brain will always express its "fi", and it will be right, because if it did not, we programmers would die at 40 years old.
How to increase productivity? Perhaps not much will succeed.
The pomodoro technique mentioned is a good one. Still need a plan, detailed and long.
I just got busy this month, and managed to increase the number of productive hours from about two to three.