The best part is that some of the focus-obsessed are wannabe technocrats who want to run everything without doing/learning the very processes themselves. "But, but I conceived of this rationally," as their conception (devoid of any decently configured perception, of course) goes off the rails, if not implodes. Perceiving this is one way to access that "golden laughter" Nietzsche talked about.
The basic observation that play is important to learning has been, I think, over-extended into near uselessness. It too often implies sandbox-play, within environments where consequences are explicitly enveloped away from the outside world; figures without grounds as McLuhan would say.
Conversely, the megalomaniacal sociopaths who run social media corporations have no problem playing with the populations of entire countries in A/B testing experiments to get results they could have gotten from an education in psychology and media studies where everything has already been done.
In the first case, the perception acquired is unmoored from larger reality and specific only to the parameters of the sandbox (say, the safe-space), and in the second case the price of developing perception is far, far too high—and likely comes about by ignoring those with perception who may have already predicted the outcome!
Yes, the focus term does seem to somewhat trivialize it. But I do wonder if there is something to the concept of focus, as drawing attention back before natural immersion returns, and that practicing that could in fact improve that aspect of pulling back to the task as a kind of skill. With reading I have to explicitly pull myself back again as social media has made me lazy... Or am i missing the point...?
The best part is that some of the focus-obsessed are wannabe technocrats who want to run everything without doing/learning the very processes themselves. "But, but I conceived of this rationally," as their conception (devoid of any decently configured perception, of course) goes off the rails, if not implodes. Perceiving this is one way to access that "golden laughter" Nietzsche talked about.
The basic observation that play is important to learning has been, I think, over-extended into near uselessness. It too often implies sandbox-play, within environments where consequences are explicitly enveloped away from the outside world; figures without grounds as McLuhan would say.
Conversely, the megalomaniacal sociopaths who run social media corporations have no problem playing with the populations of entire countries in A/B testing experiments to get results they could have gotten from an education in psychology and media studies where everything has already been done.
In the first case, the perception acquired is unmoored from larger reality and specific only to the parameters of the sandbox (say, the safe-space), and in the second case the price of developing perception is far, far too high—and likely comes about by ignoring those with perception who may have already predicted the outcome!
Yes, the focus term does seem to somewhat trivialize it. But I do wonder if there is something to the concept of focus, as drawing attention back before natural immersion returns, and that practicing that could in fact improve that aspect of pulling back to the task as a kind of skill. With reading I have to explicitly pull myself back again as social media has made me lazy... Or am i missing the point...?