Even by sports standards, this was an unusual Sunday: we had the final round of the Masters golf tournament going up against the early slate of NFL games, now CBS and Fox both have football here in the late afternoon. That is 2020 in a nutshell for you. In these past couple of weeks, I have found entering sports contacts to be very compatible with watching television because it does not take a great deal of concentration to manage both simultaneously. I am always amazed by people who can work with the radio or TV on like it is nothing. I have to think my way through what I am working on in a lot of cases and so those sounds tend to be distracting to me.
Much of it is certainly going to depend upon the work I am doing. Again, looking up e-mails and putting them into an Excel spreadsheet does not take a whole lot of effort, thus I can do that and listen to the TV at the same time. Designing the brochure or website, on the other hand, requires me to work with only my thoughts. Other people are different. Others can work through all the noise around them. In the case of athletes, they do it because they have to. Or they did before the COVID-19 pandemic anyway. With or without noise, I have gotten through a significant portion of the list and will work through as much of it as I can before all is said and done.