It’s so logical and obvious. Of course, if you’re focused on losing your job, keeping your job, whether or not this person is really interested in you, your cat, the car alarm outside, etc. You’re not going to be “in the moment.” And you just won’t be able to “perform.”

It’s just like panic attacks. If you have a panic attack at one particular spot in the day, and everytime you get there you think “I’m not going to freak I’m not going to freak I’m not going to freak” — Boom. You have the panic attack, further reinforcing it.

Just like the one time you can’t maintain arousal, and you keep telling yourself, “I’M GONNA GET/STAY HARD!” Boom down, like cement.

Yay for applied psychology!

Now the question is–how much does our overly jumpy technological society contribute to our inability to focus…