The Skill of Continuous Partial Attention

One of my mentors, a much-disciplined and serious sort of guy recently left me with some jewels to ponder. “Master the unseen”.

For many people, especially those without the patience or desire to “do the knowledge”, my guy probably sounds like he’s on some next level new age-hippy propaganda head-trip.

But he ain’t. And your gonna have to take my word for it...

Anyway, back to CPA better known as multi-tasking.

Recently research has shown that multitasking isn't necessarily the best skill to "master". Apparently, according to God Wikipedia, multitasking can result in time wasted due to human context switching. Which I guess means that humans aren’t really programmed to think and perform separate types of task concurrently therefore we waste time –real time or ‘thinking time’- trying to figure out how to manage or switch between multiple task.

In addition, due to the lack of singular focus on a specific task, more oversight of errors is likely to occur.

I guess I’m taking that 'skill' off my resume..... (thanks for the bad advice, mom!)

Master the unseen.

-Kitty Hawk, Brooklyn New York City

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