Focus Challenges in 2025

Focus is a very important aspect for everyday life for any human being. We need focus to study, to work, or to do anything in general. Focusing allows us to complete any task with less time and more efficiency. But unfortunately, this is the aspect people struggle with every day, especially in 2025. Here's why.

Micro content consumption

With modernization of content length, we are constantly consuming micro contents, or to be more specific, short videos. We watch videos on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube that are less than a minute long. When people are constantly watching short videos, it gets very difficult for anyone to focus longer than a minute per content because we are constantly training our attention span by watching short videos. This has severely damaged our attention span without us realizing.

Lack of reading frequently

As per the most recent data, on average 2.75 books were read in Bangladesh in the year 2024. This is an alarming situation. Because the total annual reading statistics is drastically declining, the focus overall has become a struggling pattern. Because reading a book with 300 pages can take a decent amount of concentration, not reading books can be considered a reason why people in 2025 are severely struggling with focus. Think of this as a form of exercise. If you do not undergo physical exercise on a regular basis, your health will decline. Since people are not reading enough, focus is not being exercised.

Sleep deprivation

Staying awake late at night and not sleeping enough can be considered as the main culprit for lacking focus. Because we do have to attend classes or go to our office, not having enough sleep can cause severe damage in our total concentration due to the caused hormonal imbalance.

These are a few points which can cause lack of focus. There are other aspects, which can also cause lack of focus, then again it varies from person to person. I would love to hear your take on this.

These problems cannot be solved overnight as these have become a long term practice. Personally, I believe if anyone wants to work on his focus, he needs to personally identify which aspects are causing this and slowly work on those one by one with time in order to solve this problem. If you ask me, I would start with reading a book.