Focusing in the current age we are living in has been a difficult task even for grownups, most effective, and most productive people.

This is due to the fact that all of us has to do many things daily and react to thousands of interruptions every second.

The flow of information – even the useful f them – is overwhelming.

The problem has far gone beyond little kids or ADHD. The problem is touching every person of us in the social media era, abundant connectivity and oceans of knowledge.

As far as I can frame the problem, there are too types of distractions state:

The first kind of distraction is short term distraction.

Like what happens to children and teens when they try to concentrate to their lessons or when solving problems while they are being tempted to watch TV or to go out with their peers.

I think productive people and most grownups in general can easily overcome this kind of distraction and get to focus their attention properly to complete tasks in front of them.

The second distraction state is the shiny objects syndrome.

This is what happens to productive people and especially entrepreneurs who always searching for new ideas and new targets to pursue.

The second type is the hardest. Since it makes the person trapped in the state of continues search for new ideas but unable to complete old ones neither stick to one idea to the end.

Are you feeling the same?

How could Elon Musk managed to create many companies that have so little in common while still be focused to get all of them successful?

I’m searching for this topic because frankly I’m suffering from it from a long time in my life and didn’t knew about it until recently.

Remembering an old interview

Once I was interviewed for a software scholarship and the interviewer asked me about what I had of technical skills. I answered about a lot of things.

The guy response was devastating but it was all real.

He told me that he wouldn’t be able to accept me for the scholarship because I had such more things to be interested in.

And this would lead me not to complete the scholarship.

In fact, I’ve been applying for this scholarship as trial to get specific about one topic in technology and master it on a solid ground.

Many years after I realized that I’m a multi passionate person. I have multi passions that I want to try and make.

After I started reading productivity and self-help books I knew the term Shiny Objects Syndrome. I thought it could happen to anybody.

Just today as I sit to write this article and searched the web for the term ‘Shiny Objects Syndrome’ SOS as I found that this syndrome affects entrepreneurs and creative people not just the ordinary people.

Now I’m being sincere to myself and have managed to stick to one project during a long time until now and it made my mind more concentrated into the target of getting better at writing.

After searching for cure to this illness as they call it, I found that the best cure for it is

Focusing on one project to the end
Writing new ideas until the time come to pursue them
Keeping slower pace of action
One article even suggested that you have a dream killer person who is so skeptic that if you told him about your new idea he would find many reasons for it to die.

Try to focus your attention and keep your ideas safe until you finish those in progress.