Such a quaint compromise during the symposium, but despite all my brilliance I hadn’t thought of this! If I want to focus, why not just turn off that niggling little voice of a network connection? Something I’ll definitely start doing during study sessions

I did find something out about my own attention during this wi-fi-less symposium though: I have a surprising amount of trouble focusing. Every 30 seconds or so my mind procures some oddity to think about, perhaps along the lines of, “Man, what’s up with that ceiling? I wonder how old that is? How old is this building even?” or maybe, “That dude in front of me has a really nice pen. Gold and silver, I wonder where it came from? There’s that pretty neat pen shop up Elizabeth Street, maybe I should check it out…” you get the idea. Hardly ADHD – I notice the trains of thought pretty quickly and snap myself back into focus – but it happens a lot more than I’d like.

Upon realising this I began to ponder upon the idea very often supposed that Generation Y is an attention deficit generation that has lost a real sense of focus. This, in itself, was a departure from my original thought about myself not being able to focus and the irony right there and then was palpable. 

This will be one of my main focuses for improvement to my learning from here on in. I guess all I can try do first is will my way into focus. Whether this will work or not is beyond me, but we’ll see.