But being scatterbrained doesn't mean you're not smart - we're some of the most intelligent and creative people around, because our unfocused minds enable us to be highly imaginative (which is totally a fair trade for all those time we left the house with the curling iron still plugged in). As someone who has come to terms with my scatterbrained tendencies, I can attest to having what feels like a dozen thoughts going on inside my mind at once -which on more than occasion lead to a misplaced cell phone and house keys left hanging in the front door. This overload leaves our working memory unable to process things (like what we were doing a minute ago, before we got distracted) clearly. For a true scatterbrain, daily life is both a struggle and infinitely interesting - and the internet has nothing to do with it.Ī recent study of those of us who are prone to this kind of accidental flakiness suggests that our tendencies are caused by having a lot of “ seemingly irrelevant information” overwhelming our minds. Yet, as those of us whose tendency to forget our keys in the mailbox or our coffee on the car roof started way before the advent of Twitter know, there’s a line between getting easily distracted now and then and being a full-fledged scatterbrain. In this era of information overload, it’s easy to point our fingers at the internet and all its glorious distractions for turning us into scatterbrains.
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