A story about focus

I mentioned in my last post that I've recently read The Unitasker by A. J. Jacobs. It was horrendously long, and I almost wanted to stop once i saw how far I had to scroll, but I was hooked after the second page and don't regret reading it at all. The story describes how Jacobs decided to completely quit multitasking for a time and "unitask," or solely do one thing at a time. He wouldn't read the news and eat breakfast at the same time, answer calls while doing work, that sort of thing. He found it rather difficult at first, but it became easier as the days went on. He also throws in some facts regarding attention span- He argues in today's society, everyone needs to be constantly stimulated. An analogy on this Jacobs makes is that whereas in the past people would get in depth on one thing, like a scuba diver in the ocean, nowadays people rapidly absorb superficial amounts of information from many subjects at once, like a jet ski riding across the water's surface. Jacob even mentions how this mentality is strangely American, with some numbers about how American kids keep at a hard problem for just around seven minutes, whereas Japanese students stay on task for around fourteen. All in all, he makes out his self-imposed unitasking experiment to be a success, one that he benefited from conducting. Jacob has even been allowed to drive again, since crashing his car much earlier due to lack of focus. He makes it sound beneficial enough that I would try it out, if I actually had any willpower or motivation to speak of. Unfortunately, I'm to cripplingly lazy and life is full of just too many tantalizing distractions.