My obsession since April 2013 has been “attention stealers” – noticing what I’ noticing and analyzing the pushes and pulls internally. I don’t always know if I like or don’t like something – that judgement call sometimes escapes me. But I AM good at noticing visceral sensations – a tug on the side of the belly, a thought that makes my head jerk a little to the right — and the rambling thoughts in my phonological loop have directions like left right up down back front center middle edges etc and when there’s fewer and fewer attention stealers – or when I can handle the attention stealers and put them in a box or off to the side or in a shelf for “later” or get up, deal with them and return to task, that’s when I know I’m effectively in hyperfocus mode and working at an efficient level. It’s satisfying. Unsustainable for long periods because life beckons, but it is satisfying.

My obsession since April 2013 has been “attention stealers” – noticing what I’ noticing and analyzing the pushes and pulls internally.
I don’t always know if I like or don’t like something – that judgement call sometimes escapes me. But I AM good at noticing visceral sensations – a tug on the side of the belly, a thought that makes my head jerk a little to the right — and the rambling thoughts in my phonological loop have directions like left right up down back front center middle edges etc

and when there’s fewer and fewer attention stealers – or when I can handle the attention stealers and put them in a box or off to the side or in a shelf for “later” or get up, deal with them and return to task, that’s when I know I’m effectively in hyperfocus mode and working at an efficient level. It’s satisfying. Unsustainable for long periods because life beckons, but it is satisfying.

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