Sustained attention

Sustained attention

The capacity to stay focused on a task to completion, no matter what.

Sustained attention brain

If this is a strength for you, you may…

Distractions

be able to screen out distractions to get the job done

Boring

complete a task even if it is boring

Reward

put off rewarding yourself until it’s done

If this is a challenge for you, you may…

distracted

get easily distracted by something else

staying on task

find it difficult to stay on a task

Distractions

find it hard to get back into something once distracted

flit between tasks

start lots of things and don’t finish them