I have a problem where I get sidetracked too easily, and it hinders my ability to do a lot of things. A good example is when I watch TV shows or movies on my laptop… It usually takes me almost 3x as long as the actual video is to finish it, because I'll go off on tangent for various reasons. Maybe I'll play a game on my iPad, or I'll hear something in said show that I want to know more about (a place or person or ideology for example)… So I Google that, which leads to me reading article after article getting increasingly off-track until I finally realize what I'm doing and go back to my show. This sort of thing also happens when I study in school, which is a problem.
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