#deep focus

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Deep Focus LXXIV (14 Mar 2024), paper collage, 30.8 x 24.1 cm.

[tonythr]

Cool charm spots appreciation post, part 2

[flame-shadow]

D4, G3, Blue

a predator with crystalline slime

If you, the asker, would like to adopt this design for 20 USD, please DM me. If not, this design will be available for adoption for anyone else interested after two days. :)

[richwall101]

Rainy Night in Grand Forks - art by Bob Dylan (from the Deep Focus Series 2021) Acrylic on Canvas - 90.4cm x 152.5cm

[principiumindividuationis777]

[aboutto-fly]

Vibrant music for uplifting the mood!!

Acoustic instrumental music for relaxing, and energizing the soul 😌

Hear it out!!!

[chilltidetrance]

Lo-Fi Moody Vibes🎸 | Awesome Music for Sleeping and deep relaxation ☀️ G...

[unrelatedwaffle]

This thread is going viral today and I just have a lot of things to say about it.

This person's purview is marketing. She is doing this research to more effectively market to Gen Z. But I don't give a shit about that. I give a shit about the "Gen Z focus group participants don't want to read to find information" and the alarm bells that rings to me.

In general, reading on paper >>> reading on screens >>>> audio >>>>> video for comprehension and absorption. Why is this?

It doesn't appear to be necessarily inherent to the screen vs print experience (other than some findings about temporal/spatial placement of events in a book, which CAN help with retention). But screen reading on a device connected to the internet, or capable of doing other things, even offline? Distraction machine. You cannot learn anything if you don't focus on it.

Furthermore, books and reading themselves are only the gate to learning (see https://andymatuschak.org/books/ for an excellent overview). To facilitate learning, you must have active involvement with new ideas. That can come from asking questions about what you've read, taking notes, discussing what you've read, connecting it to other ideas, and learning the same thing from several sources.

But those things? Those are LEARNED AND PRACTICED SKILLS. They're not a given from passive consumption of material. (What Matuschak cites as "metacognition.") And you have to CHOOSE to do them. Every time. It's hard. You cannot learn anything if you don't focus on it.

It's not that video is inherently bad for learning. It's a combination of attitudes about video (they must be "entertaining", see the Big Think piece above), distraction/lack of focus, and lack of active engagement.

It's not like these issues are new. People have been refusing to use their brains because it's hard since, well, forever. (Although the tools we have available to completely turn off our brains and let other people think for us are so fucking sophisticated today I don't think we really comprehend it). But things like democracy and pluralism are incredibly fragile, and are dependent upon an educated populace that can think critically. A functioning society cannot continue when its members spend the vast majority of their time disengaged from reality, passively consuming ideas without thinking about them, and addicted to being entertained.

Again, this is not just a generational problem. This is a fundamental problem with humans, who evolved in very different circumstances than the ones we find ourselves in. Our big, complex frontal lobes are late entries. But we greatly enjoy all the things frontal lobes have created (all the luxuries of society we take for granted until a major natural disaster). And to maintain them, or come up with new ones, we HAVE to foster a society that celebrates intellectual work. This is not a value judgment of "kids today don't read, reading is a moral good, get off my lawn" it's "we cannot continue the things we want in civilization if active learning is not cultivated." This is an emergency.

Deep focus is an act of resistance in a society that depends on your distraction to generate capital. The attention economy is real, even though it's a big house of cards built on sand. I'm begging you, person to person, to cultivate focus in your life in some way.

[mediamonarchy]

#MorningMonarchy: May 12, 2023

#MorningMonarchy MP3: #May12, 2023 w/#MediaMemes/#DeepFocus + #ThisDayInHistory & #TruthMusic by @MindseedMusic!

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[merlionkingdom]

I’ve realised that i put so much of my energy on the wrong feeling in the end of the week so i forgave my old self to behave like this and i wanted to do it again but now i want to focus on the amount of positive energy and see better results.

[359midnightburgers]

What is your favourite deep focus album/playlist? Mine used to be Hurry Up, We're Dreaming by M83 but I listened to it too much in a stressful time and now it makes me want to puke

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Deep Focus LXXII (2023), paper collage, 25.4 x 18.8 cm.

[calmnatureoasis]

🔥Ultimate Fireplace Snowstorm Ambience 8 Hours of Cozy Cabin Sleep Soun...

[soulfulrelaxingaudio]

Focus Music for Studying and Work, Background Music for Concentration, Study Music

[richwall101]

Old Guys at The Beach - Art by Bob Dylan - 2020 - from the Deep Focus Series - Acrylic on Canvas 91.5cm x 156.6cm

[aboutto-fly]

Check out the new relaxing music video on youtube... 👀