concentration span

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>hey, out of curiosity…what is your concentration span? And i mean, not turning on the MSN to see who’s online, going on the web, constantly moving around the house…etc. I’ll start. 2 hours.</p>

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<p>about four hours…though I take breaks to go to bathroom, get water etc…does that count?</p>

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<p>depends on the thing I’m concentrating on.
boring=5 mins (kind of short huh)
interesting= 2 hours
plus bathroom & water breaks, like what Azn Nerd mentioned</p>

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<p>5 hours. Plus a 5min break for bathroom.</p>

<p>I think concentration spans are a developing thing. I started off with 40min last year…</p>

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<p>has anyone ever consider using aderall or similar drugs to improve concentration?</p>

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<p>It depends on what I’m working on. It can be several hours. I have pretty good concentration. </p>

<p>My younger brother can only last about 10-15 minutes.</p>

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<p>Maybe he has ADD. Though ADD is soooo over diagnosed from what I hear.</p>

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<p>Probably. Apparently almost everyone has ADD now.</p>

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<p>Aznnerd, i have considered but I havent. I actually started a thread about this on cc cafe a while ago:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=101298[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=101298&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>mine is around 20 min before i have to randomly get up and walk around…kinda sad</p>

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<p>If it’s something interesting I just lose track of time…</p>

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<p>Same here (interesting material)…although that rarely happens.
The only other time that I can concentrate is when I have to (a three-hour final exam) or when I am scared (time directly before said exam).</p>

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<p>in front of the computer mine is SO short, its ridiculous, I am always IMing its pathetic.</p>

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<p>for homework/studying… probably about 10-15 minutes (i know, really bad). unless i really waited until the last minute… in that case, probably about 35-45 minutes.</p>

<p>if i’m reading a book or something i’m really interested in probably an hour or so</p>

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<p>hmmm, 9 hours?</p>

<p>Sometimes can be down to 3 sec.</p>

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<p>concentrated spam… :p</p>

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<p>if it’s interesting= i can read until it’s finished
homework= after every subject
if it’s not so boring= 1 hour
if it’s boring to the bone= 5 minutes. i’m not kidding.</p>

<p>i may have ADD though… (what a great essay idea! jk)</p>

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<p>When I’m writing an essay or something, I’ll do laps around my house after every sentence. That’s kind of how I think. For other things it’s different. I can read or work on a math problem all day.</p>

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<p>homework - depends on length of time im working on it. I need A LOT of activation energy to get started, then once I am actually started, then I can probably concentrate for 1 hour or so.</p>

<p>computer games and forums - enough for me to skip meals and sleep: probably 8 hours max before my eyes die.</p>

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<p>i can only concentrate on something for 10 minutes (no matter what it is) before I get side-tracked and start thinking about something else or before i get up if i really don’t want to focus on what i’m doing.</p>