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Concentrating your attention (we here are all quite familiar with it) has a flipside. A vast blindness. Because the degree to which you concentrate upon a thin
by swayvil 3y ago
Concentrating your attention (we here are all quite familiar with it) has a flipside. A vast blindness.
Because the degree to which you concentrate upon a thing (ex : a puzzle, thoughts about a puzzle, thoughts in general... to name some common ones) is the degree to which you ignore everything else.
And this state can be habitual.
Which is why brilliant, creative, industrious types are... well, you are familiar with the stereotype.
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoThat stereotype applies widely but is not universal. Richard Feynman, for instance, was a good example of a well-adjusted, happy, aware-of-lots-of-stuff hyperfocused creative genius. There are many others. On the order of half of the economics professors I know (at least fifty) seem to me similarly well adjusted, despite all being quite focused.