Attention Spans
Friday, January 30th, 2009
In psychology you learn that attention is a finite resource. There is only a limited amount of attention that any single person can give to any particular stimulus. You can pay a little attention to multiple things or you can give all of your attention to one thing. For instance, right now you are reading this, but not with all of your attention, most likely because you are listening for your boss to walk up behind you and you want to be able to close the browser before they realize you’re reading a site about drunken debacles instead of doing whatever it is you do so that your boss can afford an $85,000 rug in his office.