Today we are exposed to numerous digital distractions and innovations. At the same time, restricting access to these may ultimately harm work productivity and job satisfaction. Moreover, work-based social media often have a positive impact on productivity, partly because they can lead to effective knowledge sharing and facilitate collaboration.
Distractions and focus: follow your natural personality wiring
In some cases distractibility can enhance curiosity and creativity. You may be one of those people who tend to perceive irrelevant information as a source of original and unusual ideas.
Therefore, you should choose a career that provides you with just the right level of distractions.
What types of career benefit from higher levels of distractibility?
Entrepreneur
If you want variety, entrepreneurship is for you. You will need to:
Come up with an idea
Obtain the resources to realise it
Interact with key stakeholders
Sell and develop your product
As an entrepreneur you will have no time for boredom or everyday routine. Entrepreneurs tend be very open to experience; in this respect they differ from managers. They are interested in variety and novelty and dislike routine and predictability, according to an article published by the Harvard Business Review.
PR/media production
Is staying focused on the same topic for a long time difficult for you? Then go for PR or the media. PR professionals manage clients from various industries and communicate with different audiences. They must be able to absorb and synthesise vast amounts of information. For them, distractions are raw materials from which they prepare content. In such positions you should enjoy brainstorming initial concepts, as well as managing all their phases of execution.
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