Thursday, September 23, 2010

Distraction!

Distraction is a kind of attraction”

Distraction a term which is in vague these days, has sought the attention of the people. Distraction literally refers to a thing that distracts someone’s attention. The attention is drawn on something which is not needed at that particular moment.  It differs in degree and depends on the object or aspect which has distracted the attention from the main task. Distraction is a common phenomenon, only the reason differs.

What make us to distract our attention from the task which we’re doing??  Some of reasons for why we’re being distracted are as follows:

a)   The aspect or the thing that distracts our attention will be stronger and attractive then the main task.
b)   Sometimes we’re prone to distract or shift our attention for some genuine reason. We may call it as a break or an entertainment.
c)    Our “interest” and “dedication” towards the main task could be less.
d)   Biologically it has been proved that an individual can attend to any task for maximum of only a few seconds.
e)   Attention is distracted when an irrelevant task interferes with the task one is doing.
f)    We are distracted by the thing which we like the most from the main task.

Distraction from a main task would result in two extremes. Firstly due to the distraction a person’s efficiency towards the task may reduce. Secondly, if an individual is aware of being distracted he/she would put more effort on the task to improve their efficiency. So it depends on the person how he uses the distraction as.

Now-a-days the term distraction is common in the students’ forum. If something goes wrong we’ve a habit of blaming on the thing which has distracted our attention, which is not correct! It seems like students are being pampered by the parents. I mean if parents gets to know that their daughter/son is being distracted by a particular thing, then they’ll stop giving that thing to him/her.  This is good if a child crosses the limit. Here the parents are teaching us to avoid the distraction but not teaching how to confront it. At this age they can help us to avoid the distraction but in the later stages of life there could be some unknown distraction which we alone should manage. To confront that we ought to have “courage and that courage only comes with the experience. So we should know how to confront or live with the distraction rather than avoiding it. It’s a learning process and opportunity should be given for the students to learn. We just have to know our limits.




19 comments:

suJay said...

very very relevant .... "So we should know how to confront or live with the distraction rather than avoiding it."- very true !!

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

:) :) thanks a lot for reading it sujay:)

Unknown said...

i seriously hv no words:):)..dis is the best article..:)i hv learnt a lot lot from dis particular thing...thanks for posting it here....:):):)

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

thank uu meera for reading it:) :)

Darshan said...

Just amazing...!! wonder how you could pen down covering every aspect in a simple article..!!no words dude..!!:)Nice use of potential..!!:)!!

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

:) thank you drashan:)

namrata7faps said...

great blog as always dude =)
learnt a lot frm tis blog.... owe u one!!!! =)

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

thanks buddy:) :)
i'm happy that ma blog s soo useful and at least it teaches something!!
thanks again:)

Unknown said...

HEY FIRST TIME IM READING SUCH THINGS . . . AND I KNEW SOMETHING ATLEAST. .
ILL TRY TO APPLY THIS IN MY LIFE AND SEE. . .ANY WAYS YOU HAVE A GOOD TALENT ITSELF . . . . . . . . ;-)

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

hey thanks a lot for reading it:)

snakefreak said...

o great......i needed a distraction.....can u come home......ha ha sory.... you r destruction not distraction.....just kidin.... k...comin to the main point... the way of representation is good.... "distraction is a discomfort caused by our mixed emotions".....got it ha ha....

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

@adithya... ahh!! you and your comments!!! lol;)
anyways thanks a loot for reading:) and yea only last line made some sense!!

Anonymous said...

happy new yea dea!! u r realy cute.. u eva have a gr* thnkng power.. so u r an allrounder.. ah!! gr8!! s distraction can cause a lotz of destructions in our lyf mainly it draws our attention 4m our goals about whch v wud ve dreamth alot nd hd lotz of expectations.. bt it depends on our love towards our work nd our thnkng.. bt smetmes distractions may eva lead us 2 a rite path... wat distracts u a humanbeing or non-livingthng?? ;)

ur wellwisher......

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

hey thanks a looot :) :)
please reveal your identity??
happy new year :)
both human beings and non-living thing distracts!!

Anonymous said...

nice thoughts about distraction.
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Shilpa Nagaraj said...

thanks! your name please??

snakefreak said...

lol........ wel wel wel..... someone has many welwishers...... good ;-)

Unknown said...

distraction is what happens while studying for end semester exams !

Shilpa Nagaraj said...

haha ;) i can see that :P