Stolen Focus

[Prubangboy]

Read Stolen Focus on the train down from CM. It's about how attention and sustained concentration is under assault from everything from the internet to bad diet. 

 

How's your focus these days? Do you still read books? Do you do anything intentional to improve it?

 

Me: 3 times a day meditator, gave up weed, read 2 books a week.

 

I def see attention slippage all around me.

 

Here too. People seem to just get stuck on a point and unable respond to a response. Stress and anger also kills coherency. That's why I no longer participate in Trump debates beyond tossing in a joke or two if I have some good ones. People are just talking past each other. They are physically incapable of mere listening. 

[KhunLA]

8 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

Read Stolen Focus on the train down from CM. It's about how attention and sustained concentration is under assault from everything from the internet to bad diet. 

 

How's your focus these days? Do you still read books? Do you do anything intentional to improve it?

 

Me: 3 times a day meditator, gave up weed, read 2 books a week.

 

I def see attention slippage all around me.

 

Here too. People seem to just get stuck on a point and unable respond to a response. Stress and anger also kills coherency. That's why I no longer participate in Trump debates beyond tossing in a joke or two if I have some good ones. People are just talking past each other. They are physically incapable of mere listening. 

Simply ignore the news/distractions/divisive tactics of MSM.

 

Rely on my knowledge, reality/life experiences, up bringing, verified facts I learned & know, and just a wee bit of common sense to see through all the BS.

 

Don't need to concentrate on keeping your 'focus' if you never lost it.

Edited June 2 by KhunLA

[Prubangboy]

24 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

 

Don't need to concentrate on keeping your 'focus' if you never lost it.

The book was interesting in that it presented a world-picture where attention is compromised on many fronts.

 

Most people are sleep deprived, over-worked, under money-stress, eating badly, and even suffering some mental impairment due to pollution. They may have been misdiagnosed as ADHD in childhood and further impaired by Ritalin.

 

Individual choices like you suggest are what this thread is about. Seeing this era of lower concentration as systemic is also useful.

 

Caveat: It's by a Guardian star journalist. So it def has a liberal/socialist tilt towards state solutions and favoring lower economic growth. I don't see these idea's as workable.

 

Attention is like muscle. Use it or lose it.

 

 

[Ralf001]

Is this the thread you do not want me to post in ?

[novacova]

On 6/1/2024 at 6:31 PM, Prubangboy said:

Read Stolen Focus on the train down from CM. It's about how attention and sustained concentration is under assault from everything from the internet to bad diet. 

 

How's your focus these days? Do you still read books? Do you do anything intentional to improve it?

 

Me: 3 times a day meditator, gave up weed, read 2 books a week.

 

I def see attention slippage all around me.

 

Here too. People seem to just get stuck on a point and unable respond to a response. Stress and anger also kills coherency. That's why I no longer participate in Trump debates beyond tossing in a joke or two if I have some good ones. People are just talking past each other. They are physically incapable of mere listening. 

Staying mentally and physically active, reading, exercise, good steady diet, not ingesting any toxins, meditation, active social activity and not engaging with toxic people is an imperative for a satisfying lifestyle, and it’s not difficult to do, just a matter of repetition. People that obsess over things typically are dealing with some sort of mental and emotional disorder, some folks here rant day in and day out, can’t imagine why some enjoy a love affair with the internet, certainly it has an effect on an individuals focus and general wellbeing. I think some folks in up in TH bored out of their wits because they don’t get and congregate with other people, instead of learning the language and spending time meeting and engaging with people, they resort to the mind wasting of the internet for hours on in. To each their own I suppose. 

[CanadaSam]

Just fu^*ing LISTEN.  Not so hard to do!  People are very interesting, if you try and listen. 

 

You may learn something too! 

 

(I'm not talking about the GG's on this forum, and their like.)

Edited June 3 by CanadaSam

[Will B Good]

On 6/2/2024 at 2:31 AM, Prubangboy said:

How's your focus these days?

Horrendous.....used to read four or five books at a time....now I can hardly manage to read the title of book. 

 

Find very little appeals, movies, TV series, books etc......end up just looking into the middle distance wishing I was in BKK.

[ignore it]

My ficus is going great.

 

Now that it's rainy season thinking of moving it out on the patio.

[rwill]

I had a Ford Focus but no one would steal it...

[susanlea]

5 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Horrendous.....used to read four or five books at a time....now I can hardly manage to read the title of book. 

 

Find very little appeals, movies, TV series, books etc......end up just looking into the middle distance wishing I was in BKK.

I enjoy visiting Bangkok but never want to stay long. It is always polluted.

[simon43]

8 hours ago, rwill said:

I had a Ford Focus but no one would steal it...

Yep - I thought he was posting about his car being nicked....

 

 

[Will B Good]

3 hours ago, susanlea said:

I enjoy visiting Bangkok but never want to stay long. It is always polluted.

Living in Isaan the AQ is just as bad as BKK, Jan to May, plus you have endless funerals, weddings, village blessings, temple events....BKK is much more tranquil....555

[susanlea]

9 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Living in Isaan the AQ is just as bad as BKK, Jan to May, plus you have endless funerals, weddings, village blessings, temple events....BKK is much more tranquil....555

Hua Hin is peaceful, Bangkok is not. Can't imagine wanting to live in Bangkok.

[saintdomingo]

17 hours ago, simon43 said:

Yep - I thought he was posting about his car being nicked....

 

 

Going off topic, but your comment i the now closed thread about the cafe seat fanatic brought a smile.

Wonder if he is still about.