At home I usually watch movies on my computer. I often pause them to read emails or surf a little. Last night, after reading the Atlantic article, I told myself I would stop the pausing and start watching the films all the way through. I closed my email client and my other browser windows, and I started watching Joanna Hogg's Unrelated.
It was hard! Unrelated is slow, but it's a good film, and in a theater I wouldn't have had any problem sitting through it. But on my computer, with other stimuli so convenient, it was a challenge not to get distracted. I got through without stopping, but it was like trying to resist a bowl of M&M's on my desk.