"I realized he had a short attention span," Lown said.
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Might his short attention span be similar to Mr. Trump's?
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Aides often become frustrated with the President's short attention span.
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You know how mobile + social is supposed to = short attention span?
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My studio enables my short attention span and prolific painting process.
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Because the press, like everyone else, has a short attention span.
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They make sense for the short attention span world of mobile.
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It's hurting us that people now have a short attention span.
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Why do VCs seem to have such a short attention span?
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Donald Trump, a man who has a very short attention span and requires instant gratification more or less constantly, loves campaigning because he has a very short attention span and requires instant gratification more or less constantly.
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Wonderful, the younger audience we're targeting has a short attention span anyway.
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Jacobi said Trump's short attention span was a problem for the administration.
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That short attention span is something employees had to get used to quickly.
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I've got a short attention span, so I like a lot of variety.
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History shows that we have a short attention span where water is concerned.
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I witnessed him make impulsive decisions as a result of his short attention span.
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In a world of short attention span, their power has never been so big.
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In our short-attention span era, this dynamic will be more pertinent than ever.
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But what's remarkable is the internet's short attention span has actually worked in its favor.
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It's dumb because the source material literally symbolizes the short attention span of the internet.
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It's rapid-fire, brief bursts of entertainment for the so-called short attention span generation.
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But it shouldn't have — as I reported years ago, Trump has a very short attention span.
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They just have short attention span for old-people content that hasn't changed in 10803 years.
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"I found press reporting on the president's short attention span to be entirely accurate," Snodgrass writes.
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"Just because you have a short attention span doesn't mean you're not as smart," he says.
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It's the only show that's held my increasingly short attention span since last year's Twin Peaks reunion.
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But when the American public's short attention span moves on, the fall from grace can be hard.
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As the baby of the zodiac, Aries also has an incredibly short attention span, forgiving and forgetting easily.
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What's more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.
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"Boomer has a pretty short attention span, though, so he'll go from interested to not in a second."
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To help Myanmar address these challenges, the United States must not fall prey to a short attention span.
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"This is not a fight for people with a short attention span, to say the least," Gottfried said.
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Less is written about the minuscule distance that exists between a short attention span and defective moral agency.
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He is seen to suffer from the same problem some lawmakers think affects Trump: a short attention span.
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When you have a young kid with a short attention span, you don't have that kind of time.
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And yet, the app is mostly used by teens, a user base with a short attention span. Musical.
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I know my short attention span is not a unique affliction—a lot of people have trouble focusing.
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"Part of the characteristics of social media is short attention span and people focusing high level details," he said.
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But when it comes time to analyzing what actually happened, we too often default to short attention span theater.
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Millennials and Gen Z shoppers have a very short attention span, so you need to be accurate and fast.
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In our short attention-span culture, the public will have moved on to other matters within a few months.
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But age 66 is awfully late to achieve proficiency, especially for a man with a famously short attention span.
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Our social media/short attention span media culture makes this issue absolutely perfect for Trump to single out on Twitter.
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He has little patience and a short attention span, doesn't like to study written documents, and prefers to ad lib.
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Knowles asks us to physically experience the now, which is refreshing in a society with a relatively short attention span.
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Because I've got a really short attention span, so I like hearing all the new stuff when it comes out immediately.
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When it comes to diseases, we have a very short attention span, and we tend to be reactive, rather than proactive.
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Bennett Foddy, creator of ragdoll running phenomenon QWOP, says he has a short attention span and this was always a dilemma.
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I know this is a lot of information to retain, especially given your short attention span, Aries, but stick with me!
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Well Politico is not a ... I mean, there was a magazine, but it was a short-attention-span publication as well.
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Politics will continue to hang over how investment firms trade health care stocks, but Wall Street has a short attention span.
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And in our short-attention-span culture, the news tends to move onto a new subject within days if not hours.
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" But Schwartz believes that Trump's short attention span has left him with "a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.
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"I was trying to find a program for Ragan, but she is autistic and has a short attention span," Smith tells PEOPLE.
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"He has a short attention span, but he's a pretty good workout buddy," she says about Isaiah hitting the gym with her.
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As COO, Weerasekera's self-reported short attention span helps him be intensely focused on a new challenge facing the firm every day.
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The short-attention-span jolt of Twitter is perfect for a few specialized things: breaking news, viral links — and presidential hissy fits.
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"You can eliminate some, but the thing is, the Pakistanis already believe the U.S. has a very short attention span," he said.
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"If it's not the right thing, people have a short attention span and you [just] move on to the next," she said.
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In the midst of it, Mr. Trump, who has a famously short attention span, has at times had trouble staying on course.
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This year, we saw a few fashion-related memes that we'll never forget, even in this short attention span era we live in.
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Trump apparently has a short attention span"He was unable to do interviews with me past 10 or 15 minutes," Schwartz told GMA.
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Changing the subject Trump no doubt depends on the idea that the short attention span of the country helps him survive this crisis.
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So, in honor of these speedy makeup mavens, we gathered nine of our favorite makeup tutorials for your short-attention-span-pleasing pleasure.
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You're probably the type to text back right away...unless you totally forgot about the text because you have a short attention span!
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But the quick cuts make the book the perfect solution to a widespread problem this time of year: seasonal short-attention-span syndrome.
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On one hand, I'm a millennial with a short attention span who often complains about how games can drag in the final minutes.
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Trump, who has written of having a short attention span, has been sending Vice President-elect Mike Pence to the meetings in his stead.
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If you're a polymath or have a short attention span — me being the latter of the two — you can get to work on anything.
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Thanks to the number of computers in my childhood (and an unnaturally short attention span), my handwriting has always hovered between awful and indecipherable.
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I have a really short attention span when I write so if I get bored doing a certain thing I'll jump to another instrument.
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And Trump, who has a short attention span and a desperate desire for wins, might simply get outmaneuvered by a smarter and more disciplined adversary.
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It was then, he said, that he learned of Trump's "short attention span" – one trait, Schwartz said, makes Trump incapable of being a good president.
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They provided him with clippings of newspaper headlines that were tailored to his short attention span and limited grasp of issues other than peanut farming.
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" He expressed concern about how Trump, the Republican nominee for president, would handle conflicts with world leaders and criticized Trump for his "short attention span.
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The film, though, has a maddeningly short attention span, delving just far enough into one subject to whet your appetite before flitting on to the next.
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I don't like the kind of reader this short attention span makes me, and I don't like the kind of stories it incentivizes publications to write.
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"We find that many issues are mentioned in the media, but the public has a short attention span," says PixelHELPER organizer and light artist Oliver Bienkowski.
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Trump has a short attention span and has shown a willingness to abandon some of his more edgy campaign promises, like labeling China a currency manipulator.
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In "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," author Michael Wolff has questioned Trump's mental fitness, portraying him as child-like with a short attention span.
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He combines intellectual curiosity with a short attention span, which means he rarely lets people finish their thoughts but often has a compelling reason for butting in.
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Even his close aides, as my colleague Yochi Dreazen has pointed out, have been leaking material painting him as a petulant toddler with a short attention span.
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In the never-ending quest for engagement in a short attention-span world, museums around the world have long looked for ways to spice up visitor experiences.
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For a president who has a short attention span, we will see if he and his team have dedication and interest in taking the fight to Republicans.
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The Reader was owned at the time by Michael Ferro, a digital entrepreneur with a short attention span and grandiose visions who'd purchased the Sun-Times in 2011.
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All sports drama is contrived but with the one game wild card playoff the machinations of catering to an impatient, short-attention span audience feel especially heavy-handed.
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The risk is that the short-attention-span American public and media will soon move on to the next big story and forget about our fellow Americans' suffering.
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" He also advised: "Have a short attention span," adding "quite often, I'll be talking to someone and I'll know what they're going to say before they say it.
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The younger ones can take forever to pick one out, but they usually have a short attention span and I can distract them so we can move on.
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New image casually applied, he moved to and conquered America in one fell swoop — and managed to lambaste the country for its short attention span at the same time.
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So when you're a purveyor, what people don't realize — kids don't have a short attention span, people die from playing video games 72 hours straight in Asia every year.
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They seem to have a ceaseless, churning need to produce, and a shared short attention span, which makes Room 104 the ideal playground for their type of experimental eagerness.
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The Spectacles can only capture video in 10-second spurts, which is fitting for a typical social media browser's short attention span, but unsatisfying for those reliving intimate memories.
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It was perhaps the most conceptual piece at the fest and the antidote to the short attention span syndrome that develops from seeing so much music in so little time.
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The Run-Up When Tony Schwartz was writing Donald J. Trump's first book, "The Art of the Deal," in the late 1980s, he was startled by his client's short attention span.
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They say he's got a short attention span and urges his reporters to go "buck wild," meaning to take their attacks on ideological enemies to extremes not accepted in conventional journalism.
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"It can be difficult to advise the President effectively given his seemingly short attention span and propensity to be easily distracted," a source knowledgeable about McMaster's day-to-day challenges told CNN.
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Why this isn't surprising: Since Trump took office, it has often been reported that he has a short attention span and prefers oral briefings and visual presentations over written documents and memos.
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Some social activists blame the media for the public's short attention span, believing that online interest is driven by the amount of time and attention the press gives to any given subject.
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The second apology is a "clear cleanup attempt," on the part of Mr. Franken, who might be hoping that Americans' short attention span might relieve him of any accountability down the road.
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This particular bystander tends to have a fairly short attention span and rarely stays in one place for long, perhaps because Mr. Nicks crams years of material into a 93-minute film.
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For Clarke slow play is having a ripple affect on the sport contributing to a decline in interest and participation particularly among the younger generation which has a notoriously short attention span.
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In our short-attention-span world, full of cluttered and distracted minds, every leader and manager needs to explain what they're doing and why they're doing it every week, if not every day.
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On the one hand, in this white-noise-filled-short-attention-span world, you need to create as much hubbub as possible in as short a time as possible to catch anyone's eye.
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Trump, who admits that reading is not his thing and that he suffers from a short attention span, will need to provide some comfort to Republicans on the fence that he knows his stuff.
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And Coursera's classes are longer format videos and assessments, rather than videos and interactive quizzes broken into bite-sized chunks like those developed by Grovo and others catering to a short attention span demographic.
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Leaders attending the NATO and G7 summits at the tail end of Trump's trip have been told by organizers to keep their presentations brief -- a request made with Trump's short attention span in mind.
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He surely could've chosen the name of another iconic Rust Belt town where he actually bested Clinton, but a speechwriter with a short attention span probably just liked the alliteration between the two cities.
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In fact, Trump's short attention span is so well known that NATO is reportedly "scrambling to tailor its upcoming meeting" with Trump in Brussels on the 25th in order to "avoid taxing" him too much.
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"It's like they're preparing to deal with a child — someone with a short attention span and mood who has no knowledge of NATO, no interest in in-depth policy issues, nothing," one source told Gramer.
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O.K., he has taken a lot of strange turns — that's what happens when you nominate a short-attention-span candidate who knows nothing about policy and refuses to sit still for more than three minutes.
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"He's a predatory business man with a short attention span who has been playing fast and loose with very emotive issues, agitating people about sensitive subjects and stirring up racial and religious sensitivities," he said.
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I just have that very short attention span, so I need something that keeps my attention, because if I have to perform this or be behind it, I don't want to be bored listening to it.
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And in the event your short attention span extended into adulthood, you'll be pleased to know that the lacquers will only be available in Sally Hansen's 3-in-1 formula, which dries in less than a minute.
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The nation, goaded on by a media with a short attention span and a love of artificial controversy, unfairly projected a lot of the discomfort in the collective American unconsciousness about the war in Afghanistan onto Bergdahl.
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The benefit of the movie's short attention span is that its darker scenes never get too uncomfortable — you never feel like the filmmakers are deliberately telling a story about how the pet industry feeds on human selfishness.
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The film touches on interesting issues as Mr. Baca and crew try to define the new beat, but it has a maddeningly short attention span, whetting your appetite for substantive discussion but then flitting on to another topic.
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Whether because of my own short attention span or because of the way my job keeps me focused on tomorrow's big game instead of yesterday's, I almost never return to a game after I first put it down.
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The acronym stands for "Staring in the Age of Distraction," which was inspired by an article in Elephant by Richard Blandford, about the implications of appreciating art in the short-attention-span era of web 2.0+ and beyond.
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Based on the blog of the same name by Erin Lowry, the book bridges the divide between education and entertainment, which will appeal both to this generation's notoriously short attention span as well as its thirst for financial knowledge.
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Ezra Levin, who co-founded Indivisible, an effort to resist Trump, emphasizes that calling representatives is crucial for activists — and that congressional staffers have a short attention span, so fights should be focused on the issue of the day.
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In such a context, Lee's decision to remake "She's Gotta Have It" can seem like an advertisement for himself, a savvy, scripted campaign to remind a viewing public with a very short attention span just who was here first.
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Though it lags behind the misogyny and the racism and total ignorance of domestic and foreign policy, Trump's extremely short attention span is one of the (many) unpresidential qualities that has dogged him for much of the general election campaign.
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"It's like they're preparing to deal with a child — someone with a short attention span and mood who has no knowledge of NATO, no interest in in-depth policy issues, nothing," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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In a short-attention-span nation where many might be feeling a certain amount of fatigue from this issue, it could be a problem for Democrats if this is the main story for too long going into the midterm season.
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The piece should be read in its entirety, but it lays out the ways that people inside the administration are doing everything they can to protect against what the author describes as Trump's amorality, bad instincts and short attention span.
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Trump's friends say he has a short attention span — he also tweeted about an upcoming trip to Missouri and his proposed border wall Sunday — but he sought to present himself as focused on Texas, posting online about the hurricane repeatedly.
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"It's like they're preparing to deal with a child — someone with a short attention span and mood who has no knowledge of NATO, no interest in in-depth policy issues, nothing," a source with knowledge of the preparations told Foreign Policy.
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Ashley P. With a dating pattern consisting of relationships lasting no longer than three months, Ashley, 29, blames her short attention span and the fact she thinks she is better than the men she dates as the reason why she is still single.
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President Trump, who has a short attention span and tends to show less investment in a goal (he brags that he is willing to walk away from negotiations when they are not working), needs to approach this opportunity in a different fashion.
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And his cockeyed comedic sensibility — "an unreasonable love of repetition, absurdity, narrative disjuncture and jokes that either last way too long or flit by in a short-attention-span-accommodating blink," as the New York Times Magazine described it — fit the bill exactly.
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The parodies, in which Baldwin portrays Trump as a dim-witted commander-in-chief with a short attention span, an oversized-ego and a Twitter addiction, have become an "SNL" staple, while also drawing the real-life ire of the Republican president.
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Unfortunately for the Old Gods — mythological deities like Odin and Anubis, who were worshiped in earlier periods of civilization — humans typically have a short attention span, and we're increasingly turning away from the holy figures of our pasts in favor of smartphones and binge-watching.
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The prank meme, ancient by internet standards, has had plenty of reasons to say goodbye, of course: the internet's short attention span, YouTube autoplay ads that ruin the surprise, and a live performance at the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, to name a few.
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There are plenty of reasons for this -- one is the high bar for removal from office, another is the incredibly short attention span of the political media and the average news consumer -- but there are several examples, of late, that might well boost Northam's optimism.
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Whether it's my short attention span, my deep disinterest in Saturday Night Live, or the inherent hit-or-miss quality of most sketch shows, I really struggle to care about the format, outside of the occasional Key & Peele or I Think You Should Leave.
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That feeling of being hurried, and eventually left behind — the normalizing of a catastrophe — is a growing worry for people who are caught between a short-attention-span country that has seen one disaster after another and the long-term effort it takes to rebuild battered lives.
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Trump's staff additions comes days after the White House was put on the defensive by the new book, "Fire and Fury," by Michael Wolff, which described President Trump as someone with a short attention span, lack of grasp of policy details and slapdash approach to the presidency.
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With something like this, we really wanted to make sure that … we felt like if we came out of some cinematic approach, it would help with the younger demographic that, I think, in this day and age have such a short attention span and everything like that.
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I think I have a relatively short attention span and I do a couple movies in a particular way or pushing in a particular direction and then I get bored and I feel like I'm not learning enough or growing enough so I try to switch it up.
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Trump may have a notoriously short attention span, but one would think that a president who has been accused of dabbling in anti-Semitism and Holocaust denialism might try to make just a tiny bit more effort when it comes to visiting one of the most emotionally and historically symbolic sites to the world's Jews.
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We analyzed the amount of airtime the major cable news networks devoted to Puerto Rico and found that after the first month, coverage has been virtually nonexistent: There's an evergreen critique to be made that media has a short attention span, which means it does a poor job of covering stories with a long tail.
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The sensibility of stoned 20-somethings at midnight, he realized — marked by an unreasonable love of repetition, absurdity, narrative disjuncture and jokes that either last way too long or flit by in a short-attention-span-accommodating blink — had significant overlap with that of little kids in pajamas, laughing themselves silly over breakfast cereal.
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Just as the elder Mozart aggressively promoted the talents of his son Wolfgang Amadeus, these costumed hawkers are on a similar promotional mission: Their assignment is to drum up customers for the steady output of ingratiatingly light, short-attention-span classical performances programmed around town especially for tourists drawn to one of the most famous cities in Western music history.
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When "The Civil War" came out, when "Baseball" came out, when "Jazz" came out, when "The War" came out, when "The National Parks" came out, all of those, those are large, lengthy films, all the critics were sort of anxious that nobody would watch it, because we were in an MTV generation with just a short attention span, or that this would happen.
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In just a few short months in office, Trump has already become known for his short attention span, his bizarre aversion to any kind of physical exercise more strenuous than golf, his strong dislike for staying anywhere that isn't Trump Tower or a Trump resort, and his general insistence on acting like a rich, spoiled businessman instead of a public servant and the leader of the free world.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (R-Ariz.), a frequent critic of the president, noted the "short attention span" on Capitol Hill.
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My question is twofold: 1) in a 24/7 short attention span world what's the best way to convey a point on something you find important, while holding the limited time you have to impress upon others before they move on (I'm thinking of tariffs explicitly as am baffled by several fellow Millennial small business owners who fail to understand that tariffs cost them, and I money in their products, raise prices, push inflation, and cause rate increases which decreases their ability to borrow for housing etc.
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It's about white people outside urban centers who feel like strangers in their own land; about Hispanics and African-Americans facing attacks reminiscent of the '60s; about how all of us are wrestling with the advantages and pitfalls of perpetual social media connection in our politics; about the susceptibility of our short-attention-span minds to the outrageous; and about the scary fusion of reality and fiction at a time when our world is more interconnected and combustible than ever, and in need of new paradigms.
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Jennifer Weiner Among the revelations that have rained down in the wake of Michael Wolff's White House tell-all "Fire and Fury" — the claims and counterclaims, the excerpts and the tweets, the book's vicious portrayal of a clueless, childlike president whose courtiers are forced to produce daily episodes of Short Attention Span Theater — surely the saddest is this: The president of the United States, leader of the free world and famously one of the few pet-less commanders in chief, does not understand how dogs work.
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