Otherwise everything feels like a waste of time; like I’m misssing out on something else, something better, while doing it.
This makes me think that the real issue isn’t that your attention span is small and you get bored or can’t pay attention, but that you can’t “slow down” and enjoy what you are doing that moment and instead you keep thinking “I could be doing this, or that”.
Seems to me like these are two different problems (mind you I’m not an expert or anything, just sharing an observation I made)
You are 100% right, that’s why we use virtual environments. Specifically we use poetry, which is fine.