Don’t just look in the exciting directions :) There are adaptations to maintaining a constant level of attention.
Fledgling botanists (or people with natural predilections) are pretty mellow about walking distances and watching the roadsides again all night long on replay. It’s not your feet that get tired first, it’s your brain.
But fully grown botanists have the even pace through the habitat at maximum useful speed and the ability to observe all they need to, without fluctuations in attention. I knew a guy who seemed possessed, running through the wood throwing Latin left and right (we had to write it down after him).
True, and I’ve seen lab work cultivate something similar.
(I’m pretty sure this particular skill is the inverse of programmer-style “laziness,” funnily enough. In one field, seeing repetition is reassuring. In the other, it can be evidence that your code is not as elegant and modularized as it could be.)
I always thought you’d automatically learn the gait if you just did the work often enough, though. It’s definitely a coping skill, but I read its origins as more cultivated than culturally-induced or taught.
It mostly follows the natural incentive gradients of the work. This can be in contrast to things like separation of self and client in psychology, which seems to feel actively un-natural for many people. Of course, there’s something of a spectrum here, with heavy individual variation.
Yes. How do you identify the culturally-induced or taught CM in people who have started working? (In contrast to personal CM erected through self-teaching which was gained simultaneously [with the CM obtained by peer cross-pollination and between-generation communication].)
Don’t just look in the exciting directions :) There are adaptations to maintaining a constant level of attention.
Fledgling botanists (or people with natural predilections) are pretty mellow about walking distances and watching the roadsides again all night long on replay. It’s not your feet that get tired first, it’s your brain.
But fully grown botanists have the even pace through the habitat at maximum useful speed and the ability to observe all they need to, without fluctuations in attention. I knew a guy who seemed possessed, running through the wood throwing Latin left and right (we had to write it down after him).
True, and I’ve seen lab work cultivate something similar.
(I’m pretty sure this particular skill is the inverse of programmer-style “laziness,” funnily enough. In one field, seeing repetition is reassuring. In the other, it can be evidence that your code is not as elegant and modularized as it could be.)
I always thought you’d automatically learn the gait if you just did the work often enough, though. It’s definitely a coping skill, but I read its origins as more cultivated than culturally-induced or taught.
It mostly follows the natural incentive gradients of the work. This can be in contrast to things like separation of self and client in psychology, which seems to feel actively un-natural for many people. Of course, there’s something of a spectrum here, with heavy individual variation.
Yes. How do you identify the culturally-induced or taught CM in people who have started working? (In contrast to personal CM erected through self-teaching which was gained simultaneously [with the CM obtained by peer cross-pollination and between-generation communication].)