attentional arcs
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Notes On Shifting Attentions: From Practicing To Performing
“A categorization is a natural way of identifying a kind of object or experience by highlighting certain properties, downplaying others, and hiding still others…To highlight certain properties is necessarily to downplay or hide others, which is what happens whenever we categorize something. Focusing on one set of properties shifts our attention away from others. When Continue reading
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An Attentional Arc Of Working: Compressing Beats and Focusing Energy
9:30 Breakfast. 9:40 Watch some tennis and consider working. 10:02 I’m still watching tennis. 10:10 I open up the music file, listen for five seconds, and realize it isn’t happening— the beat is plodding (my enthusiasm is low). I consider going back to watching tennis. (Are mornings even optimal for making music?) Almost anything could Continue reading

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