Brains are always learning. 

Survival adaptation, living efficiency, and time to value, are all considerations when a person is naturally in their environment. 

When adults are asked to learn intentionally as a requirement of their job, they go through a series of calculations to determine if the learning will help them be better at their job, be more efficient, or help them make more money. 

They also can tell pretty quickly if the learning is useless, or important only to the entity requiring it of them. And then they learn to move as quickly through the task as possible, to fulfill the requirement, without retaining or applying any information at all.

Even if they've done the calculation and the learning seems relevant, their attention is usually short-lived. Particularly for quota-carrying individuals. And even more so for organizations that have a culture of "this is how it's always been done". For this reason, many organizations have adopted micro-learning as a solution to short attention spans.

By Jessie Shipman

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