Thinking through

Am I losing the ability to go through with a particular chain of thought for more than a few minutes?

As I keep growing older, I sense that I have started becoming more and more lazy in terms of thinking. These days, when there is a complex piece of information to assimilate or analyse, I seem to be just allowing myself to be distracted with other things. While technology makes it easy to get distracted, I am not sure that it is technology only to blame for decreasing attention span.

The mind is something which always has been considered to be something difficult to gain control over and it is important that one makes an effort to ensure that one has control over the mind so as to not become a mental vacuum.