Attention span: two seconds.

February 1, 2009 at 7:49 pm · Filed under Geek Culture & Tech

This amazing video is of a 9-month-old baby at play.

It’s really quite fascinating, especially when looking at it while keeping in mind how an adult spends his “playtime.”

If I were to illustrate me surfing the web, for example, in the same sort of style, it would probably look similar. Gmail. Toss away. New tab, digg. Play for a bit. Get bored. Boing Boing. Scroll down. Nothing interesting anymore. Facebook. A little longer. toot. Other websites that it leads to. Gmail again. Toss away. Look up from my screen and look out the window. Resume.

I work the same way, juggling between windows, activities, tools, softwares. I juggle between books, chapters, paragraphs. I guess that just confirms my brother Omar’s theory that I am just a baby locked up in an adult’s body.

There’s something so solid about lack of concentration. While my mind jumps to and from unrelated elements, I discover so many inspirations that I otherwise wouldn’t have discovered. I can also sit for longer hours, because with doing so many things at once, it’s really hard to get bored.

Via Boing Boing.






  • http://meshx86.wordpress.com Mesh

    very nice i kept smiling ya 7ayati el bobbo :D

    “because with doing so many things at once, it’s really hard to get bored.”

    yea, but in the end you’ll need to click on “Defragment Now..” button.

  • http://www.caledoniyya.com Layla

    Same here, I’m a compulsive CTRL T’er; my computer hates me. I even have to keep written lists, lest I forget the next thing and it irks for the whole day.

  • hi

    soo ur not going to talk about ur long break?

  • http://www.kinziblogs.wordpress.com kinzi

    lol, me too, at the computer and doing housework. Way ADD.

  • http://arrabi.blogspot.com muhammad

    how come the light from the window didn’t change? one would think the sun would set at one point. hm…

  • http://nourbishouty.blogspot.com/ Nour

    Have you ever been diagnosed with ADHD ?

  • Kyle

    Pop some Aderol (or Ritalin if you’re really a baby trapped in something else lol).

    This stuff WILL make you not only focus on ONE thing at a time, but also make sure it is PERFECT before you move on to ANYTHING else!

    Example: washing your dishes and arranging them from biggest to smallest order before you move on to cups. It’s FOCUS IN A BOTTLE.

    Available at your friendly neighborhood Walgreens or CVS.

    *Consuming with alcohol may permanently damage your liver.
    **Consuming more than 2 capsules may cause over-attentiveness and sleeplessness.

  • http://travellerwithin.blogspot.com Mo-ha-med

    I got some 40 tabs open on 3 firefox windows.
    Oh, and I ended up on your blog because i was looking at an article of mine, which somehow led me to your blog.
    ADD rocks!!

    (PS – the anti-spam word i got was “zeft”!!)