Focusing Attention in a World of Distractions

Tired of texting, tweeting and internal chatter? A few cutting-edge strategies can help you combat our era's biggest irritants

Scatterbrained or Just Multitasking?
Multitasking interferes with thinking straight
Will Multi-tasking Make You a Scatterbrain?
Is Multi-tasking a Skill You Need?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/scatterbrained-or-just-multitasking

The Addict's Distracted Brain
Seeking intensity, we drink, overeat, or take drugs because of attention gone awry.
Addiction: Pay Attention
Heroin and chocolate cake have a nasty way of crowding out the rest of the universe. The country's chief addiction expert argues that the propensity to drink, overeat and take drugs is a matter of attention gone awry.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/the-addicts-distracted-brain

Make. Every. Moment. Mindful.

How to smell a rose and live in the now

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/make-every-moment-mindful

ADHD and Always on the Go
Inattentive? Hyperactive? Impulsive? The signs of attention deficit disorder.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/adhd-and-always-the-go

How to treat ADD
There's no wrong diagnosis in Hollywood's mental health.

A Funny Friday cartoon.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/how-treat-add

Are You an Instant Communication Junkie?
12 steps to reducing tech-based stress in a tech-filled world

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/are-you-instant-communication-junkie

Attention-Boosting Dos and Don’ts

Tips to avoid distraction

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/attention-boosting-dos-and-don-ts

How to Override Impulse
Learning to love long-term rewards

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/how-override-impulse

Can You Procrastinate Yourself to Death?
Unfinished forever: David Foster Wallace's latest novel.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/can-you-procrastinate-yourself-death

Cyber-Slackers Have Something to Tweet About
A little cyber-distraction makes workers happy

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/cyber-slackers-have-something-tweet-abou

The Price, and Myth, of Multi-tasking

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/the-price-and-myth-multi-tasking

7 Tips to help a Distracted Child

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/7-tips-help-distracted-child

Overloaded and Distracted in a Frenzied World

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/overloaded-and-distracted-in-frenzied-wo

Don’t Let Media Rule Your World

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/don-t-let-media-rule-your-world

5 Fallacies that Fuel Addiction to Technology

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/5-fallacies-fuel-addiction-technology

I Am a Procrastinator: Stop Putting Stuff Off

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/i-am-procrastinator-stop-putting-stuff

The Power of Listening
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/the-power-listening

Performance Enhancement

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201105/focusing-attention-in-world-distractions/performance-enhancement