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Tasks and the Brain's Ability to Focus

I am having a hard time focusing on one task at a time especially when the tasks are necessary to be done using a laptop or another tool connected to the internet. I cannot limit my mind to think of only the task I am doing in that moment to make myself efficient and aware of the task I am working on. This can be writing, reading, researching, basically anything where I will, if something interests me or if I find something other than what I am doing at that moment which I might find more interesting or possibly easier, just switch on to that task. As it can be seen, this has turned into a personality trait of mine and even my writing has scents of this issue. I am currently trying multiple things to solve the issue which causes me bigger than usual problems. I find it hard to start working as I know if I start there is no end to what I need to be doing. I think this is the present-day entrepreneur problem, the limit is the sky when it comes to working for yourself, and the only person that can stop you, or in my case start you would be yourself. Just accepting that with time, things the person is working on will be better and that nothing is perfect the first time it was done, and that nothing in life is this serious makes me relax more when it comes to my tasks. Yes I need to send in that email and it is really important for a project I might be doing but at the same time this isn't the first project I am doing, this won't be the last project I have done, and throughout time things I have done just came out fine so probably this isn't a catastrophic event like I think it is. Another key problem is the never ending will to make things better. The will never ends but our lives do, some things are better without being perfected. Lastly, the vastness of possibilities in our lives. I for one have never estimated myself to be boxed in a major, thinking that I would do that job for the rest of my life. I see friends who, I think, are wasting their potential because they think very linearly, not seeing any other opportunities they have which are out of their fields. Engineers look into only their own fields, social sciences do not think of work as they do not have any bright career, programming and computer sciences, the major that should house the most entrepreneurs in our time is currently still populated by a group of people that are ok with writing code for other people's ideas and just earning money. My brain doesn't work like that. I know the capabilities of myself and also of the technology we have. I don't have much capital but I have my tools, my network and myself to build things which can be beneficial to me and to the society I live in. Why shouldn't I try? My understanding might be a little too extreme as there are many viable options when it comes to why I shouldn't try, the biggest being my life and age. One might say these years are to have fun and to collect memories, whereas others can say I need to work hard in school these years to guarantee a worthwhile career. I saw how that ended up being for my parents. The memories part is one that I cannot say anything against but that is a very deep topic to think more about later. I have been thinking of vibe coding basic mobile games after seeing the success of Turkey's new unicorn being another game production company. Tools are advanced enough and I believe I know enough when it comes to games and users so I want to give it a try, not aiming to compete with a unicorn, or create the new Ubisoft, I just want to see how things work in different fields. If tech wasn't advanced enough, I would have thought about this but not acted in any way as I would know it wouldn't be realistic to create mobile games while at the same time being a full time student. Now I get to try, learn, and have fun. But I think it is an enormous yes when it comes to technology dividing one's interest when it comes to working. Learning about Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and how they created google, what made them the best web browser available, the usage of a basic mathematical concept which was also used in the creation of the nuclear bombs we know, the Monte Carlo method, to create this one project, doing a typo in the actual name of the web browser and coming along to what it has become is really admirable and inspiring at the same time, but I do think it was much much much easier for people like me to create things and succeed. I was born in Istanbul, into a family that was accepting and successful, more than that they were passionate about the idea of me. Their child wasn't brought to this earth to be a piece in their puzzle they call a family, instead becoming a step further, the next ladder when climbing out a whole. This attitude of theirs, giving importance and resources to the education I was getting as much as two white collar parents could put me forward compared to most of my peers whether its similar or different demographics. Together with my drive to learn and get better, I believe I am in a good spot right now. However, If I had my teenage years during the creation of the internet to the creation of social media, and be in my 30s during this AI expansion would have made me much more successful. The reason behind this being most of my peers, disregarding their demographics, could come to a similar level to me with only their drive as technology has become a bigger tool for them then to me, which I am happy about. It is just a thing I think about sometimes. To conclude I would definitely say that tools are magical for everyone however at the same time it is really hard to adjust to and be organized within the unending content era we are in.