Comment on Science, Engineering and Art all involve lots of concentration.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
All 3 use concentration. Concentration is important.
Than why the heck do I still exist? My concentration is like the getaway driver in a bank robbery that you hired when you saw for fun that they drove absolutely at the complete limit for the hell of it and you had never seen someone drive like that, and they knew all the roads around the bank because they had spent countless nights speeding on them like a mad man with a deathwish… except when you actually do the bank robbery and get in the car, the getaway driver is still just operating under the philosophy that driving like a complete madman is fun and that is why they are doing it.
This results in an extremely long police chase, that you may or may not get a way in, but it is guranteed to be cinematic as fuck.
In terms of controlling my concentration I have mostly given up with telling lies about robbing a bank and needing to run as fast as we can to the getaway driver (that is my concentration in this metaphor if I have butchered my metaphor so badly this is confusing…) I just get a cotten laundry bag, walk out of a bank yelling gibberish back inside the doors as people look at me funny and jump in the getaway car and ride.
Sometimes the police do catch us and pull us over and are ready to arrest us for a bank robbery until they call the bank and realize that the person brought the cotten bag into the bank, turned around and ran out like they had robbed the bank when clearly they had barely stepped foot in it.
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Habit? Inertia?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Survival
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Whenever I let it all hang out here, I invariably end up offending 99% of the people. And that’s frustrating and dull.
I have yet to offend you, apparently. So allow me to let it hang out a bit more.
Magic is like science, much lighter on the models. In that observation is key.
Or like art, but lighter on the art-making. In that esoteric stuff is touched.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
My point is concentration isn’t an engineered point of forced coming together that has been planned as a ruse against the cruel mysteries of the universe.
Concentration is a crossroads, a natural coming together point, a city that already exists in your mind, you just have to find it except when you do, it irrevocably changes the city and risks sending the true heart of your concentration somewhere else and thus at least for some of us “concentration” is the name for an eternal wild goose chase not a name for a set of tools we have in our woodworking shop.