I find it very hard to concentrate on things unless I am highly interested in something.
It leads me to procrastinate a lot.
Is that just lack of discipline?
It can be.
It has to do a lot with our desires and aversions.
If you're a person who has a lot of desires and aversions, then it's quite likely that you'll procrastinate in a great number of things.
If you have less desire and less aversion,
then you'll be able to focus on many more things because your interest will be your ability to develop interest will be heightened because you'll be able to just be interested in whatever is in the present moment so you won't have a desire to go and do things but you'll be interested in whatever the task is in front of you now
The other aspect is that your lack of interest is actually a natural outcome of the meditation.
So it can also have to do with the uselessness of the things that you're doing.
So I found it quite difficult to focus on school.
After I practiced meditation I went back and did two different years.
The first year it was quite easy because I was really keen on it because there were some Buddhist courses I could take and Sanskrit and so on.
So actually I was quite into it.
But the second year, going back, totally the opposite.
There were no more Buddhist courses to take, and I just totally found it impossible to focus on it.
There was no interest there.
And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
It just means that if the things that you're supposed to concentrate on are useless,
then it just becomes a fact of the matter that it's very difficult to become interested and it's unwholesome and unhealthy actually to become interested or to force yourself to do things that are of no benefit.
So yeah, for most of us it's just defilements.
But once we start to meditate, there's that aspect as well that it can have to do with our meditation practice.
You'll find that as a result of meditating, you don't want to get involved with a great number of things that you before found easy to get involved in.