This is a good point. People have an incentive to act as if they have 100% focus all the time, especially at the workplace, and especially in American-style culture. So, many people also feel as if they are broken because they get distracted. There is probably a significant portion of the population that truly has a disorder, but for the rest of the population, should we really be calling distraction behavior a "disorder" if it's a massive portion of the population?
I think much of the modern issue with focus can be attributed to the Digital Age. How can anyone focus with all these alerts and dings and emails and sounds everywhere all the time? And multitasking is worshipped like it's the modern man's solution to all problems. We're still drinking the 60s Kool-Aid, as if the modern, fancy, carefree Jetsons' lifestyle is right around the corner. It isn't. We're still the same human beings with the same old problems, except now we have additional problems due to the onset of technology.
(Not that technology doesn't solve certain issues, of course.)
I think much of the modern issue with focus can be attributed to the Digital Age. How can anyone focus with all these alerts and dings and emails and sounds everywhere all the time? And multitasking is worshipped like it's the modern man's solution to all problems. We're still drinking the 60s Kool-Aid, as if the modern, fancy, carefree Jetsons' lifestyle is right around the corner. It isn't. We're still the same human beings with the same old problems, except now we have additional problems due to the onset of technology.
(Not that technology doesn't solve certain issues, of course.)