Does anyone here consider themselves very smart, but

has no concentration?? I am one of those. I can't sit on a chair and start to do the activities that are required of me to make me a better person.

It's really hard to concentrate for me these days. I am generally a happy person. Can anyone with any experience give some advice??

I guess.

As smart as the, at least.

I know!! But it's so frustrating!!! Gaaah *rips a piece of paper in half*

Rather than not concentrate on anything, I tend to concentrate really hard on one thing, to the extent that I forget the rest of the world exists.

This and it drives my wife crazy. I have selective hearing and if I'm focused on something, I wont hear a damn word that comes out of her mouth. It sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher when she is speaking. :D

@outworld222: Find something you're REALLY interested in and get smarter at it. Maybe you're just bored with everything that's been presented to you.

It sounds like you might have ADD. I'm no psychologist, but yeah.

Well I really just procrastinate a lot. It's more of a desire not to do shit, rather than an inability to

I've always had a big problem with that. It'd be one thing if it was stuff that I really didn't have to do at all, but I procrastinate on stuff that I know I'm gonna have to do anyway. I've gotten better about it, but it's still a problem and it pisses me off. Why do I do that to myself? I've surely had enough experience to know two things: hard tasks just get harder when you procrastinate, and getting started is usually the hardest part. If I simply got started early and then left ample time to do the rest, then things would be SO much easier.

If it makes you feel any better I have realised through the course of my life a lot of these hard tasks are just not that important in the grand scheme of things haha. Thats totally the wrong attitude but its perfectly possible to stumble through life with average intelligence and average effort and be just fine. You could stumble along in average mode until your sick enough of being average that you kick yourself up the ass.

No magic number of people telling you to do shit is going to motivate you. It'll happen one day, be it through choice, necessity, a family, financial needs etc. Just relax and enjoy the simple things in life. You wont miss these hard tasks when your on deaths door. You might regret giving yourself a hard time about it for years.

Yep.

It's called ADHD.

Sure isn't called smart :P

A lot of ADHD-positive people are generally brighter than not..

Genius

What were we talking about again?

Once I knuckle down, I have no issues with concentration. Self discipline and motivation are key, I guess.