Intention vs Algorithms

Imagine this: You open Instagram to research a restaurant or cafe you want to visit. As soon as you open the app, though, you see a cute cat video or an important post about your country’s politics. You start watching, and 30 minutes later, you’re still scrolling or diving deeper into the news!

Your intention was to check out the cafe or restaurant, but now you’re doing something completely different.

So, basically, distractions from the outside world can potentially determine your mood and actions.

I think defining a metric to see how your actions and mood are affected by outside distractions could be a good productivity indicator. I call it intentional living.

Something like: Intentional focus score = actions based on intention / actions based on distractions and hooks

Disclaimer: Not all distractions in life are bad; however, this could be a useful metric for business and productivity.