Focus
Single-mindedness.
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Single-mindedness.
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The dimension of Focus is about how well the individual practices their attention, discipline, and single-mindedness in the accomplishment of their goal.
The purpose of defining the Tome.gg dimension of focus specifically is so that people can evaluate their skill of focus accurately and consistently with others. Having varying definitions of focus will mean that people may either be evaluating different things, or the scorings may vary depending on their own personal definitions.
The nightmare scenarios below provide different situations where the individual fail to practice the skill of focus.
Scenario: Getting insecure about other's mastery, or fearing to make mistakes, or disappointing others
Scenario: The student does not love what they do, and feels the pressure to be as passionate as their peers in the field
Scenario: They don't use their writings to focus their attention, thus resulting to just being reactive to their circumstances and situation.
Scenario: Due to scarcity, fear, or ignorance, a student does not dream of what mountain to accomplish.
Case 5: Specifics-oriented rather than criteria-oriented
Scenario: You define your goals as a singular possible win condition rather than a set of criteria opening to a broad set of possible win conditions, leading to frustration and inflexibility.
Part of doing focused work is also learning to accept the down-time, or resting. The practice of focus does not mean that these important aspects of sustainable focus are regarded as unimportant or unnecessary.
Maintaining focus is the easiest when you are in the best shape, in all aspects of your life. Part of practicing focus is being responsible for yourself, your physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. By being responsible for yourself, your family, your friends, your work, you can learn to shift your focus in and out of these different aspects of your life.
Pausing your attention on work does not mean that you are unfocused. You can be focused even as you switch between the different aspects of your life.
Why should we not do this? Please consider:
implementation cost, both in term of size and complexity
whether the proposed feature can be implemented in user space
integration of this feature with other existing and planned features
cost of migrating (is it a breaking change?)
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What other designs have been considered? What is the impact of not doing this?
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05/29/2023
05/29/2023