How To Improve Your Attention Span

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The other night, I stayed up too late crawling through Google, looking at beds. My search began for good reasons: I have a small studio with not enough space for a full sized bed, but I’m an adult who doesn’t want to sleep on a twin, so I was researching alternative options (there are none). Currently, I sleep on a sofa bed futon thing from Ikea, which I’m not even sure qualifies as a bed. At some point, I abandoned rationality and found myself staring at a large, circular bed. Intriguing. One click led to another. I found diamond encrusted beds. Water beds, beds that hang from ceilings, beds with elaborate canopies, beds specifically designed to rest on the floor (floor beds?), beds for moody couples, hospital beds, a bed that rocks you to sleep, a levitating bed, beds that make themselves, a huge hammock bed. The bed options are endless, and I stayed up too late.

My therapist once wrote me a prescription for Adderall. My high degree of distractibility was not exactly helped by this, because I don’t think I have ADHD, and if I do, it’s not severe. I just get bored easily, and then I get moody and restless and then I spend hours googling beds.

But, despite my sideways brain, I manage to do stuff. I complete my work, and sometimes excel. I can write things that are halfway entertaining…