Paul Goodman has a line somewhere about how getting distracted is getting attracted to something else. I don't think he attributed the thought to Augustine but maybe it used by too basic and an insight.
> St. #Augustine, one of the Church Fathers of #WesternChristianity. In his autobiographical work, “The Confessions,” Augustine observes that every time we pay attention to one thing, we are distracted from infinitely many other things.
#DavidMarno #ToleratingDistraction
https://theconversation.com/tolerating-distraction-87580