How to Deal with Interruptions

How to Deal with Interruptions
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[Written as a reply to someone repoting inconvenience caused by others asking how is he feeling. The author of the report found it difficult to query through memories of recent days in order to produce a rationally justified estimate of how is he generally feeling.]

I think you issue is caused by a less-than-optimal conception of time. In order to introduce you to a conception of time I consider an improvement, I'd prefer to tell you how to attain that conception of time instead of what it is.

I recommend you to do work so that you're frequently interrupted by someone who refuses to stop interrupting you at first.

Frequent interruptions are a cognitive problem because the other person is forcing you to multitask, yet multitasking decreases overall cognitive performance. So, in effect, the other person is causing you brain damage, so you need to get serious about making them stop that.

But let us suppose that the other person believe they have a justification to inflict brain damage on you. The could, for example, believe that: "I'm just the kind of a person who has a habit of interrupting others. I cope with this by requiring others to be fine with what I do."

In this case the interruptor will insist that you could just resume doing what you were doing before they interrupted you. The only move that works against this is to forget what you were doing.

There is also another move that "works" against this: to comply. But then you get brain damage. So you don't want to choose this.

When you do this, maybe at first you will need to lie that you don't remember what you were doing. But if you're angry at the interruptor for interrupting you you will soon genuinely forget what you were doing.

If you can genuinely forget that, you will no longer experience the feeling of dishonesty you mentioned in your post. That feeling you experience when someone asks about your feelings and you feel you're responsible for querying through a "sufficiently" large enough dataset before replying. You won't even be able to query through a very large dataset if you have damaged your memory like this. But at least you didn't damage your performance with regards to the ability to focus.

Your intention in feeling dishonest if you can't correctly query a large enough dataset before answering, is by all means a good intention. But it seems to complicate your interaction with others. I suggest you replace this feeling of dishonesty that impairs social interaction with genuinely dishonest activity that improves social interaction.