[Stylist] Attention spans

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

Hi everyone, 
Thank you for your book recommendations. I will see if I can download the one book, and hopefully I'll have the attention to span to read it... only joking here.
Right now, unfortunately, I'm not sure how we can lengthen others' attention spans. But I suppose, as individuals, we can try to challenge ourselves by not moving on immediately after it looks boring. No need to force yourself to read the entire thing, but maybe trying a few more sentences of it?
To complicate things further, there's the idea of the differing ways in which the brains of these who are neurodiverse work (I myself am neurodiverse). I could read a long article about a band I enjoy listening to, for example, but feel bored and really have to push myself to read a few paragraphs of a subject I have no interest in. In some ways, I can embrace it by writing flash and short stories. 
But then again, I think back to the hard-cover Braille books I would get from the Jernigan Institute when I was younger. These were always random. I had less choice in what  I read back then,  and would probably still have given the book a chance even if it wasn't something I was terribly into. 
Who knows! 
Vejas
>  2023, at 20:44, Tina Hansen via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> This is a good discussion. It leads to questions of what we can do about
> this issue.
> 
> Some of you remember back in 2019 when I had a small team working with me on
> a project around Apollo 11. We didn't get to finish it, but we learned a lot
> from doing it. As the main writer for our narrative, I felt the struggle as
> I kept asking how to present this narrative with enough substance. I think
> we did pretty well at it, but the more I see what's happening in our world,
> the more I wonder how we can deal with this issue of short attention spans.
> If the cultural trend is moving towards more flash and no substance, that's
> a cause for concern.
> 
> My affiliate is doing some membership building events, and I've been on the
> planning committee. We'll be working with the presenters to keep things
> short and sweet, but I know we'll also need to allow people to take a break.
> 
> This whole issue leads me to acknowledge that we can't turn the clock back.
> Technology will not go away. So what can we do to help ourselves? Any
> thoughts? Thanks.
> 
> 
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