It’s a problem that feeds itself. Checking your e-mail or Twitter account and finding a new message or some new updates from your friends is very… moreish. Each new ‘thing’ you discover is like a reward for your brain – well done!, it says, you checked for a thing, and you found one!. And so you check again. And again, and again.
I’m fixing my habit of multi-tasking. Madeline has forced me to focus on a single task at a time, because I have limited time now.