The more hours days I poured into Skyrim, the more I came to realise that the petty little stories associated with each minor quest bored the shit out of me. And so I would do my nails incline push-ups while the NPC quest giver was yakking about his/her missing uncle/heirloom meat cleaver/libido and just look up the quest marker when (s)he was done talking.
I’m gonna give that a fancy name and call it disengagement with the narrative.