Why is it so hard to resist distractions?

At school most of us at some point will have been told to be more focussed and be less distracted.   So why is it that we find distractions so difficult to control?   These days we are surrounded by distractions and we welcome them into our lives often through technology we buy.   Sometimes those distractions can seriously knock us off course and use a lot of our energy to recover, sometime distractions are a necessary condition of creativity where extreme focus allows us to miss the things that matter.   In this episode of the Energy Leader podcast we look at what neuroscience has to say about the downsides and upsides of distractions and how we can make them work for us.