What is your attention span like?

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I seem to have the attention span of a rock. I can't stay focused on hardly anything, and it sucks. I have trouble reading, because I will get distracted very easily and then have to start reading the paragraph or sentence all over again. Oh, and don't get me started on driving. I can't do it... I scare myself and feel like I'm going to crash because of my lack of attention to where I'm going. So as a result I don't drive much, in fact I avoid it as much as possible.

So what is everyone else's attention span like? Are you like me?

My attention span is very broad and deep. I can focus intensely on even the most trivial things for long periods of time, and when I'm at the top of my game, I can multi-task excessively, keeping track of a half-dozen or more things at once. It's very taxing though.

Varies. When I'm interested in something, I can stay focused for hours and hours.

When it isn't, I can't. But then I frequently go out of my way to focus my attention on other things. I've got more important things to do like program

I think you posted the same thing twice.

... That would explain why I gave roughly the same answer twice, thinking that it might not have posted.

I work/concentrate best when I'm doing a million different things at once. My boss has ADD so we work together well - I'm the only one in the office who can "handle" her working style.

My attention span depends directly on my intrest in a subject and the challenge it presents. I might not like or but intrested in a project but if it is difficult I can stay focused and if I find it intresting the well I can get lose in it.
Simple repetive tasks like daily reports are just impossible i can't even remember that I am supposted to do thm till someone starts looking for them. I usually have to do a weeks worth at a time.