Where Is Your Attention Actually Leaking?

Because attention does not usually shatter, it leaks — toward open loops, toward worry, toward numbing, toward whatever is newest. Each leak has a different shape and a different repair, and the widespread advice to delete an app addresses only one of them.

10 questions, about three minutes. Free — you give your email at the end so your Coordinates can reach you, and the result appears the moment you finish.

The Tab-Keeper, the Flinch-Checker, the Numbness-Scroller, and the Spark-Chaser. Each drains somewhere different — into unfinished loops, into watching for something bad, into going flat on purpose, or into chasing the next new thing.

This quiz does not and cannot tell you that, and it deliberately never suggests it. Attention has many causes — stress, exhaustion, grief, hormones, and simply living inside an interruption machine — and only a qualified clinician can assess for anything diagnosable. What this names is where your attention is currently going, which is useful regardless of the cause.

Sometimes, and not always in the way people assume. The phone is usually where the leak drains, not why the tank has a hole. Two of these four patterns barely improve when the phone is removed, because the pull underneath is worry or unfinished loops rather than the device.