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07 Jul 2012, 3:36 am

I work on things and forget to eat aswell this happens a lot at uni
But if things get moved around or I get interrupted a lot I have next to no concentration



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07 Jul 2012, 5:16 am

Yep: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4499635.html#4499635



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07 Jul 2012, 6:04 am

FishStickNick wrote:
jetbuilder wrote:
It does feel as if I have momentum built up in the project and it's hard to shift that momentum to something else.

Yeah, this is exactly what I experience.

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I have great trouble switching tasks; the only thing I don't have trouble with is stopping a task to eat.

Oh, I stop to eat...eventually. :) It took me about an hour to finally get up and get lunch. My productivity dropped off significantly afterward, though.


Yeah, exactly. Momentum like that's hard to reproduce when you want it, but when it's there - bo yah.


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