Focus
Single-mindedness.
Summary
The dimension of Focus is about how well the individual practices their attention, discipline, and single-mindedness in the accomplishment of their goal.
Motivation
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.
Detailed Design
Nightmare scenarios
The nightmare scenarios below provide different situations where the individual fail to practice the skill of focus.
Case 1: Overwhelmed students
Scenario: Getting insecure about other's mastery, or fearing to make mistakes, or disappointing others
Case 2: Feeling pressured to be passionate
Scenario: The student does not love what they do, and feels the pressure to be as passionate as their peers in the field
Case 3: Reactive, non-planning mindset
Scenario: They don't use their writings to focus their attention, thus resulting to just being reactive to their circumstances and situation.
Case 4: Lack of or denial of one's goal
Scenario: Due to scarcity, fear, or ignorance, a student does not dream of what mountain to accomplish.
Exceptions
Balance: Inhale, and exhale
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.
Balance: Holistic health
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.
Drawbacks
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?)
There are tradeoffs to choosing any path. Attempt to identify them here.
Alternatives
What other designs have been considered? What is the impact of not doing this?
Unresolved questions
To recommend unresolved questions, please
Future possibilities
None for now.
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