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ATTENTION
DEFICIT DISORDER
By Ivan Hince
A lot of people
have never even heard of attention deficit disorder yet is getting
quite common amongst children and adults alike.
I must admit that until a few
months ago I hadn't myself, and I didn’t realise even when I found out
just how bad it could be. Attention Deficit
Disorder is affecting more and more people every year, and
that includes Children as well.
In this modern world of fast technology with so
many new pieces of office equipment to make our life better, and
more productive it sometimes has the opposite affect. Sometimes you
have to keep up with technology to keep ahead of your opposition, so
you must follow all the latest information on all new pieces of
technology that will enable you to do your work faster, and better
than all your competition.
It is believed that Attention Deficit Disorder
affects 5% of people
and children through out the world, yet in some business circles it
can be as high as 80%. When this sort high figure crops up it’s
almost as thou the person affected has burnt out, and will be
replaced with someone who is not affected, or someone younger. It could be that a
business run by someone affected will simply go out of business, and
at the extreme that person could go bankrupt.
Well what causes it?
For Children one of the main causes is
Television, or maybe computer games. Test have been done on
Children who watch three hours of Television a day, and it found
that when they were compared with Children that didn’t watch
television they were nowhere near as good in exam results, or having
the ability to concentrate on their work.
In adults there are many things that can make a
person suffer. Things like phones, or mobiles, or organisers, or
pagers, or emails. The list is longer, but even those few items can
stop the train of thought.
You might have been in this type of situation
yourself, where your working on an important document when the phone
rings. You stop what your doing to answer the phone. Now this
maybe an important call, and perhaps it’s one you been waiting for.
You talk to the person making notes as you go,
as you concentrate on what the person is saying. Once this phone
call is over you carefully put your notes to one side so that you
can deal with it later, and then you go back to what you were doing
before. But all of a sudden you look at the work in front of you,
and you can’t remember what you were doing or just where you were.
Often in cases like this it can take you up to twenty minutes to get
back into the swing of things.
The incoming sound of an email can stop your
train of thoughts, and even someone stopping by your desk for a chat
can stop you in your track. Things like this are said to cost
thousands of man hours every year, as these odd ten minutes, or the
odd twenty minutes add up.
Some times modern technology can be the vain of
your life. You buy the most up to date piece of kit, after reading
that it will save you time and money compared with what you are
using, only to find that you don’t understand it. It becomes
frustrating that you have to wait for one of your young children to
come into the house to help you out. Countless number of man-hours
are lost each year with new technology that is supposed to make your
life better to the point that sometimes you put them to one side,
and don’t even use them.
Another thing I have noticed, and it’s
something I have put down to A.D.D. is multi tasking. You’re
working away doing one job, when someone asks if you can something
else. No problem you think, as you go headlong into this next job,
thinking that you will go back to your original job later. But this
new job takes you onto another that needs doing, and then you think that while I’m
doing this job I’ll just do another. To the point you’ve forgotten
all about what you were doing.
One every successful business Lady I read about
would only do one job at a time. She would take no phone calls, no
emails, and no interruptions at all. Her reason is that once she
concentrated on one job she did it without interruption, which in
her mind did the job better.
This subject could be talked about, or written
about for hours, but my phones going….he..he.
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