I have found that about reading @wanttolivebetter. I will sit with a book on a single page and keep re-reading the same paragraph many times over and over again, but my mind wandering and not there. I would stay adamant and have managed to finish books, but it would take me a month or 2 months to finish one and I don't quite have the same reading experience, because of the breaks I took in reading it.

And like you say, I have had my mind wander in between listening to someone or a team-member describing something. And then I would have to apologize and say please can you repeat that last bit? or I would say something to make it sound less nasty than I wasn't listening at all.

I think it is a common thing.

In the past, when this was affecting me in a really bad way, I signed up for a meditation course and also practiced it for a good few months and found it helped me a great deal.

I am now struggling to get back to meditation.

Mindfulness or meditation, its a way to slow down racing thoughts or observe thoughts. Would totally recommend trying it.