Day 015

#100Days

Maintaining center, focus and attention strengths, while interacting with others.

If you decide to act grumpily, it is quite easy to behave in a way that would help you keep focused.
On the other hand, being too flexible would open a breach to slow down or even stop a person from performing well or even doing an activity at all. And that can kill general productivity, endurance, and any activity that requires consistent attention.

Now looking at human interaction and activities one performs during a day, it really depends on a person's brain abilities to keep up with focused or difused attention. Some people say they're more multitasking, while others are more monotasked. Some consider themselves exclusively either one or the other.

I'm not sure all the activities can be performed well by any attention style. Take yoga for instance, some postures really require you to be fully into them. Any distraction affects the success of holding those postures.

Some other activities do allow you to perform them in parallel with others. For example, writing down things someone is telling you on the phone. This one is more manageable to perform. Still, taking notes about something someone is telling you can have different levels of difficulty, according to the brain abilities of each person.

I'm now trying to look deeper into it. Maybe there are ways to train yourself to be more focused or difused, according to the situation at hand. When you have a strong will, then it gets easier to decide and control it. But when you're unsure...

I started this text with a specific case in mind: the tipical example when you're trying to focus on an activity while there is another person close by, and that person keeps commenting on something, speaking to you about random topics, asking for your attention, listening to music or watching videos on louder volumes, or even just makig noises from whatever activity s/he is doing while you're doing yours.

Is it possible to be respectful while asking for some space, silence and time yourself, so you can increase your effectivity and productivity?

Maybe grumpyness is just a communication style, and you might not need to stay like that for long, just enough so you make it clear that you need some space.

Same goes to flexibility. How important do you consider your task to be? Does it worth all the time and stress you're going through? Does that really matters enough to loose some of your health?

Maybe there's no right answer to that. But while writing here I figured that our will is quite relevant, and if one wants to make it right, focus on having a strong, clear and well defined Will.

Willpower. Make it survive through all the adversities the world might bring you.
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