Motivation
The first reason people have difficulty concentrating is because of their motivation. We live in a very fast paced world, where things are thrown at us from every angle. We are bombarded with advertisements from the minute we wake up, to the minute we go to sleep. They are unavoidable, no matter what kind of a life you live. We are brought up in a world that is obsessed with materialism. From being a baby, we are taught about santa clause and showered with presents, at birthdays, easter, and all the other holidays. It goes from being about spending time with family, to what you can get out of family. It becomes an expectation, rather than being thoughtful. Most people would rather a present, than a hug. Infact, when someone close to you doesn’t give you a present, you think of them as cheap. Or if they give you a gift that wasn’t as expensive as you expected, sometimes even an argument occurs, or treated differently. Especially when they spent so much on you. Give everyone a keychain for christmas, and see how people react. Here is an even better idea, don’t buy gifts for anyone, and tell them not to buy gifts for you. Instead, spend time, and enjoy each others company, because that is the greatest gift of all. But no, that won’t happen….because society says consume consume consume, buy buy buy. So to think like this, means you’re a weirdo.
So to be able to buy all these materistic things, not just for holidays or special occasions, but even for yourself, we often go into debt, or work very hard to be able to afford it. Then, when we are not working, we spend most of our time, staring at screens. Just about everyone is guilty of this. Whenever we have some free time, we don’t just sit down and relax and spend time with ourselves and nature, instead we rush to the nearest screen. We talk to friends on cell phones, or on the internet. We stare at our television screens, or we go to a movie. Play a video game, and so on. We keep our lives so busy, we forget that there is even a purpose to it. Then one day you wake up and realize you’re overweight, or unhealthy, and are forced to take up going to the gym or some other form of excercise.
Most people are only motivated by what HAS to be done. They get up in the morning to go to work, because they have to. They cook a meal, or clean the house, because they have to. The minute they don’t have to do anything, they go back to their screen and thats it. It is an addiction that people don’t even realize exists. I’m sure everyone here can relate to seeing people face down into their cell phones, be it, in a car, on a bike, walking, sitting somewhere, or even when visiting with you. They only hear every third word you say. I see people at work, on facebook all the time. Now that its on cellphones, it doesn’t even matter what you do for work. It is something that has taken over the lives of many individuals. So when we never take the time to think for ourselves, and contemplate life, the ability to concentrate gets less and less as time goes on.
Imagine if electricity disappeared tomorrow. Everything electrical fails to work. It would bring human beings back to the stone age instantly. People would not know how to look after themselves. We have become so dependant on materistic things, that we have literally forgotten how to live. Pretty sad when you think about it.
On top of all of that, there is celebrities. People worship them, they get so involved in someone elses life, that it actually affects their own life. Because a celebrity did something, it means someone else must do it, and it creates a reality that is completely false to their own identity. This is where drama comes from. The religion of the celebrity. All these reality tv shows, america’s next top model, american idol, and so on, they are as far from reality, as you can get without being mentally insane. Things like this, have caused most of the population, to lose the ability to critically think for themselves. People just plod along, doing what they have to do in life, never wondering about how amazing life is. People hardly even look at the stars anymore, they are just little dots of light in a galaxy far far away, nothing to see here. Humanity went from building cities,monuments, and pyramids in alignment with stars, to building technology to avoid them completely. Does that sound like evolution to you?
So the number 1 reason, most people cannot concentrate, is their motivation is completely materialistic and superficial, and they don’t even realize it. They will fight to remain in their own prison, its genius. For those that realize this, read about the second reason people don’t have the ability to concentrate, a few posts down from this.
