{"id":201,"date":"2007-11-04T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=201"},"modified":"2007-11-04T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:29:33","slug":"focus-precludes-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Focus precludes creativity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I am narrowly focusing on my dissertation, I have noticed that my tendency to generate ideas has slowed. While this is useful both in my current situation (I don&#8217;t need distractions while working on the paper that ultimately forms the basis for the beginning of my career as a scholar) and from an evolutionary perspective (if you&#8217;re in a situation that requires focus, such as gathering food, unrelated ideas probably don&#8217;t serve as well as focusing on the solitary task at hand), it represents a fundamental divide (which is temporarily bridged) between my primary breadth-first mode of thought and the rest of depth-driven society. What is more interesting is that it says something about the operation of society as a whole if the majority of its thinkers are depth-first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I am narrowly focusing on my dissertation, I have noticed that my tendency to generate ideas has slowed. While this is useful both in my current situation (I don&#8217;t need distractions while working on the paper that ultimately forms the basis for the beginning of my career as a scholar) and from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}