Attention Span

My attention span or lack thereof, is kinda amazing. It has many disadvantages, but a few advantages I think, however I still believe I train up and improve my attention span. I often feel like my mind is constantly searching for something, a thought, a sight, a glimmer of  interest, some would compare this to some sort of ape, but I see it more like a focused gold miner sifting through waterbed soil in search for the glimmer. You see I would believe that this generation's lack of attention span is a sign of lost intelligence if it wasn't for the fact that we also have the ability to become incredibly immersed, and combine that with the incredible amount of information we have to sort through.

We get bombarded with information and somehow we have to sort out this information from important and useless, something that makes us feel like we learned or gained, from something that is dragging down our mental bandwidth, so we search constantly, what is out there? what is here? why is this important? Our lack of attention span isn't that we can't care about the subject, it is that we ask to many questions of whats around us.

Where is the problem. Well for starters it is incredibly arrogant of us to believe we know what important. Not all that glitters is gold and it's real easy to get pulled by something truly not useful to us.

So that's the challenge, don't be ashamed of you wee bitty attention span, be proud, but also be weary, it has it's weaknesses, and one must learn what is gold, BEFORE it judges what is valuable.