Distractibility
Difficulty maintaining attention on a single task, with the mind repeatedly pulled away by competing stimuli, thoughts, or impulses.
Quick answer
Difficulty maintaining attention on a single task, with the mind repeatedly pulled away by competing stimuli, thoughts, or impulses.
Recognition
Do any of these feel familiar?
People describe starting tasks but losing focus after minutes, being disrupted by ambient noise that others ignore, or finding their mind drifting to worries or unrelated ideas mid-task. Many report spending significant time on lower-priority activities due to inability to resist distraction.
What is Distractibility?
Difficulty maintaining attention on a single task, with the mind repeatedly pulled away by competing stimuli, thoughts, or impulses.
Approaches Commonly Explored
Commonly explored for conditions related to Distractibility, grouped by mechanism — select your subtype above to highlight the most relevant path.
How to use these approaches
Most people begin with Stabilise approaches, then progress toward Resolve and Sustain.
Nervous system regulation, brain function, and neural pathways.
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