or, maybe it happens when one is not that interested in the subject in the first place?
I meet many people trying to teach themselves to focus harder. I'm skeptical. When I'm routinely having trouble focusing, it's often a helpful sign I'm working on the wrong thing, or applying insufficient imagination, & need to shake things up.
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Exactly.
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I’m super interested in how/where you find sufficient/new imagination and how you shake things up!
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Finding stimulating books and papers and videos. Planning. Asking foundational questions (why am I interested in this? am I really interested in something adjacent? what would make this 10 times more interesting? what's a nearby idea I can't get out of my head?)
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What does "shaking things up" usually involve?
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Anything from "I need to go for a walk" to "I need to stop / completely reimagine this project". Often it means I've let things become rote, so I'm no longer filled with imagination.
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I'm Zen meditation practice they have a guy walking around who you can ask to hit you with a stick. This is very good for focusing.
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Have you done such a meditation? If so, how did you find it? (Absolutely fascinated by this idea.)
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Doing a lot of work on things other than the really important projects I really care about is the best behavior I've adopted.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/955594773624012801 …
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I spent many years thinking fixedness on the #1 thing was the way. But often those projects require a lot of hammock time to eek out what the real wants are, how to develop the structure.
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