Five Ways To Stop Shiny Object Syndrome

Long before“Shiny Object Syndrome” was coined as a term, an insignificant blogger from Utah referred to a similar condition and called it Multi-Irons Syndrome. Are they the same thing?Shiny Object Syndrome — The Fancy Term for Something You’ve Been Doing All Your LifeThere is often a difference between what an expression means when it is coined and how people end up using it. People often don’t see eye to eye on these things. One group will insist on the academic or dictionary usage of a term or word, while the popular usage tromples all over them. Irregardless, we don’t have a lot of control over language. (Yes, yes, I couldn’t resist.) Language evolves. Take a stand on one meaning, and you’ll soon find yourself in the camp of people who hate the use of the singular“they”, shaking your aging fist at the sky, shouting,“But that’s not what the word means!” We lost that particular battle years ago when people got tired of typing“he or she” and“him or her” as gender neutral expressions in business letters.Shiny Object Syndrome is another one of those terms. People don’t exactly agree on what it means, and they don’t all use the same expression, though it is clear which one is winning that particular battle. The original meaning of“Shiny Object Syndrome” has more to do with project creep than distractions, but that’s not how it is used. Just look at that...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs