^*ATTENTION STEALERS* - Kenneth Udut
(To those that think I waste time on this stuff, this whole
thing took only 15 minutes from start to finish - the drawing
then this text. Hopefully a useful use of 15 minutes of my life
:D and I hope it helps someone -Ken)
This is the beginning of an idea that I'm having. I had an
inkling, about what happens when Your attention, your "noticing
", is pulled. I see it's like a rubber sheet. Your attention can
be pulled outwardly towards a loud noise, something you see out
of the corner of your eye, words floating in the air that you
overhear. More commonly, it is people demanding attention. Or
quiet things in the background off in the distance.
Also, your attention can be pulled inwardly. Awe and amazement
brings positive reinforcement to the idea. Or, a critical
negative voice can appear that says "that's stupid ", or some
kind of guilt or shame. Also, you may have just remembered
something. Or, you are hit by an intriguing idea. That one is my
personal fave. Also pain, and your body can draw your attention.
. And finally the worst of all, the destroyer of the inkling of
thoughts, our emotional thoughts. I call them the emotional
thought blackhole. They destroy attention because They can suck
you down into a movie. A circle. That goes around, and around,
and around. Depression, sadness, anger, are all some of the
emotional thoughts that can take away your attention for a long
time.
Even positive thoughts can take your attention away. Love, can
be a circle that never ends. This can be good, all of these
things can be good, but, they will take away your attention from
the present moment.
This is just the beginning of an idea that I have. I am hoping
that some scientist has already done this work for me. But, I
had to get it on paper. And while I was Thinking of this idea
about what grabs your attention, I engaged myself in the
difficult task of keeping the idea long enough to write it down.
Your short-term memory lasts for only 15 to 30 seconds at the
most. This means that you have to use a number of tricks in
order to hold on to your attention long enough to get it out of
your head and onto paper, or spoken. I noticed a number of
tricks that seemed to hold this idea in my head long enough for
me to get it down now.
They include Roman room, chunking of ideas, turning them into a
song which works for me because I have a musical temperament,
and that will be the subject of my next thing.
Kenneth Udut April 22, 2013
(all typing Errors courtesy of my *thing* about "the rough draft
is perfect* and that I'm don't like editing - and also courtesy
of SIRI, who did her best to transcribe my voice)^
