I find there is a wonderful paradox around focus. By defnition, to focus on one thing is to lose sight of another and so the more time we spend focusing at one level, the less focus we have one level higher.
Focus, as you use it, implies attention to detail at a given level of granularity. The challenge nowadays is that we are provided with floods of information at every level - and the question we must perpetually ask is ‘what’s the best level to focus at’.
- David Cruickshank, in a comment to this post of Douglas Johnson's over at A Million Monkeys Typing. (It's a great post, IMO... well worth the read. Evidentally stirred in part by this post and dialog over at at Weblogg-Ed).
You'll filter out and avoid a lot of reading today -- and a lot of focused thinking as well -- just deailing with the daily cavalcade of information trying to invade your mind / life. Perhaps most importantly, it's quite possible you'll miss the Being amidst the Doing, taking in and fending off the invasion.
Changing perspective from overview to details and back. Creative oscillation. Being / Doing. Taking in new information, vs. formally analyzing it vs. just letting it mull in the back of your mind while you reflection and ruminate. It seems to me that in many ways, it's all about Balance.
...so what's the USRDA for your brain?
