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Attention Deficit Trait - similar to ADHD, but caused by information overload in crazy work environments

Attention Deficit Trait - Praxis - MIT Wiki Service

Found a mention about this in a book by the German coach Martin Wehrle (titled: "Bin ich hier der Depp?"), who describe how many aspect of modern work environments can literally make people ill - and often are like designed for that.

ADT, or "Attention Deficit Trait", is similar to ADHD, but is caused purely by environment - constant interruptions, unrealistic schedules, high pressure, lack of empathic interaction, impossible multi-tasking (a thing that computers can do well, but not humans), neverending stream of notifications by electronic media, addictive-by-design apps, and nagging software and operating systems are what causes it, resulting in an inability to "switch off".

If one has difficulties correlated with job changes, this might be worth consideration. Myself, a year ago I left a job in a renowned research organization that piled up about 40 parallel urgent projects in the course of five years. The difference has been night and day.

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