Shortform #95 The Feeling of Focusing & Attentiveness
At any given moment, where is the full weight of your attention targeted at? Or is your attention partial, divvied up amongst several targets?
I’m deliberately reducing the amount of noticed occurrences where my attention is partial rather than full. Undivided focus or attentiveness not only makes experiencing existence more satisfying for me, it also sharpens my cognition because I single task instead of multitask. That sharpness benefits me by reducing biases, making my heuristics more transparent & noticeable, and generally increases my capability to derail cached thinking in favor of more context-aware, more up to date & accurate thinking.
What does attentiveness feel like? What does it feel like from the inside to be fully focused & single-tasked?
I feel a sharply noticeable difference in my body between divided & undivided attention:
Divided attention fatigues me, makes me feel guilty if I’m actively listening to someone or in a conversation, and gives me a “lurching back and forth as if pulled simultaneously in conflicting directions” feeling in my body (literally I’ll feel “moved in one direction” in one part of my body or head & “moved in another direction” in other areas.
Full attention feels razor sharp, it feels competent, it feels natural, it makes my embodiment feel very good, and I feel completely oriented in the same direction at the same time.
I’m curious about how emotional states, embodied feelings & states of being, and focus affect cognition, because I think these things are highly significantly impactful on the quality of one’s cognitive processes & capabilities to be accurate with one’s cognition.
Shortform #95 The Feeling of Focusing & Attentiveness
At any given moment, where is the full weight of your attention targeted at? Or is your attention partial, divvied up amongst several targets?
I’m deliberately reducing the amount of noticed occurrences where my attention is partial rather than full. Undivided focus or attentiveness not only makes experiencing existence more satisfying for me, it also sharpens my cognition because I single task instead of multitask. That sharpness benefits me by reducing biases, making my heuristics more transparent & noticeable, and generally increases my capability to derail cached thinking in favor of more context-aware, more up to date & accurate thinking.
What does attentiveness feel like? What does it feel like from the inside to be fully focused & single-tasked? I feel a sharply noticeable difference in my body between divided & undivided attention:
Divided attention fatigues me, makes me feel guilty if I’m actively listening to someone or in a conversation, and gives me a “lurching back and forth as if pulled simultaneously in conflicting directions” feeling in my body (literally I’ll feel “moved in one direction” in one part of my body or head & “moved in another direction” in other areas.
Full attention feels razor sharp, it feels competent, it feels natural, it makes my embodiment feel very good, and I feel completely oriented in the same direction at the same time.
I’m curious about how emotional states, embodied feelings & states of being, and focus affect cognition, because I think these things are highly significantly impactful on the quality of one’s cognitive processes & capabilities to be accurate with one’s cognition.