[regularfry]

Rampant unmedicated ADHD.

Sounds like a joke response, but it isn't. My focus will settle on something because I want to do a specific thing in that area, and it just doesn't let go, even when I need it to. As a perfect handy example, my brain is currently full of a) chess, and b) compliant mechanisms, when it should be full of Rails/React interview prep.

I guess the transferrable principle here is to have something concrete you want to do with the knowledge you're gaining so that your brain has a tonne of hooks to hang the theory off.