Mark Manson — Attention Saturation DisorderAttention is a limited resource. Society has evolved to the point where it can provide information at a far greater rate than any of us could ever hope to consume. Marketing and media has mastered packaging information in alluring and dramatic manners to suck us in and constantly want more. But what if we don’t need to maximize our consumption of information? What if maximizing it was actually hurting us?
I’m starting to believe most of us are over-saturated with information. I think the eruption of so-called “Attention Deficit Disorder” may not be so much a deficit of attention rather than a saturation of attention. There’s so much stimulation to consume that our brains train themselves to only focus on each item for the bare minimum amount of time. And then move on. Life has more breadth but no depth. No focus.