cognition is not a discrete process taking place inside your head. it isn't even a discrete process taking place inside your body. it's a web extending everywhere, with dense nodes pulling it this way and that, synchronizing and desynchronizing, making models of each other
i'm not particularly advocating paring away all but one goal; it's a great way to achieve that goal, but as you note it's also a great way to devastate the countryside. people normally have a ton of conflicting priorities and that's fine
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what i'm advocating getting rid of isn't all consideration of goals other than the current primary one, it's activity that's nominally in support of the current primary one but is actually just fucking it up
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i see how my phrasing "thinking of nothing but" sounds like the other thing, though; oops for most people a memory or example or visualization of success will involve solving for multiple priorities though
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