On attention, attention spans, focus on projects
Hello, what has nerdfighteria been paying attention to?
I remember a while ago, Hank posted about gambling vs. cannabis - their relative harm. Anybody stay with that? I think I made a meme / image about it, then basically forgot about it.
TB-Fighting I was reading Black Angels. Now the book club (TB-Readers, very cool), seems has moved on, and then moved on again. I also meant to read the back-catalogue, bought 3 past books of the book club besides the then current one, I didn't even finish the first I tried...
I think it's quite relevant to talk about attention "spans". I think recently in politics it is pretty true that the Iran War diverted attention from the Epstein scandal, not only in the news but also in Congress. I say that not to be political but in the sense that maybe it's worthwhile to look into what we pay attention to and why we move it, if or when we do.
Hank has spoken a bit of how he enjoys having a lot of projects, right? Starting new things. Are John's occupations longer term than Hank's, do y'all think? Books take a while, maybe...
Is your attention span short? (not in the sense of tiktok, measured in seconds or minutes - but in the sense of having projects or interests that last months or years) Has it been very nerd-fighter-y? I guess in my case there is a link with crash-course literature and John's love for the written word at least, I've been participating a lot in book clubs, writing a bit of poetry.
But yeah, - is there a sense in which we are at "war", continuingly battling, to choose for ourselves, instead of "going with the flow"? A flow of distractions and peer pressure? A pressure to go for novelty instead of "being boring"?