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i am the exact opposite. ha ha ha ... once i get going on a problem, you could fire a cannon next to my ear and i may notice. as a matter of fact, i prefer no
by utxaa 12y ago
i am the exact opposite. ha ha ha ... once i get going on a problem, you could fire a cannon next to my ear and i may notice. as a matter of fact, i prefer noise around me when i'm working. i'm not being sarcastic. i'm pretty good at my job, although no genius (not even that smart) by any stretch in any way :)
but i feel that this ability to hyper-concentrate helps me overcome an otherwise average intelligence. anyone else experiences this?
- praveer13 12y agoIt's impossible for me to focus if I am not interested in something, but if something is fascinating to me, I forget to eat, drink water and do normal tasks and keep at this thing for hours. It has nearly ruined my life.
- utxaa 12y agoyeah. same. but for me it doesn't matter. if it's a puzzle (from number theory to computational geometry and everything in btwn) if i start, game over. it's a problem.
- walterbell 12y agosearch 'hyperfocus' set timers
- spdustin 12y agoAnd read "Driven to Distraction", seriously. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307743152/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307743152/
- digi_owl 12y agoI find that it has changed with age. When i was younger i could blast music and not get thrown off a line of thought. But these days even a notification ding will get me derailed.
- dwarman 12y agoIt's called "Hyperfocus", and is common in ASD and ADHD. You might want to get a proper diagnosis. It does not particularly correlate with intelligence as far as I know. Somewhat unintuitive too, but there it is. Low filter threshold and hyperfocus co-existing in the same brain. I'm waiting for the fMRI results on what is going on here.