I’m interested in the opposite of mindfullness—absent mindedness—why it exists and how mutable it is. I have, it must be said, a particularly diffuse personality - I forget things, a lot, put things down and forget where they are, fail to plan things. Introspection identifies this as a mixture of acrasia and propensity to boredom—I find it very difficult to concentrate on mundane things instead of thinking about neural networks or politics.
I’ve unfortunately chosen a line of work (molecular biology) that punishes absent mindedness ruthlessly. After months of failure and avoidable errors, and experimentation with checklists etc etc. mindfulness meditation appears to be helping. It’s also transforming my experience of life in general—meditation led me to end a stagnant relationship, and seems to be effecting my thoughts on political matters.
I seem to have benefited uncommonly from meditation. I ruminate less, I work more, and I’m even starting to lose things less. Has anyonebody else with this personality trait found the same?
I don’t know how I rank on the absent-mindedness scale compared to everyone else, but I definitely find that during those periods of my life where I’m working on training attention (mindfulness meditation is often a part of that), I get more done and I keep track of things more reliably.
I’m interested in the opposite of mindfullness—absent mindedness—why it exists and how mutable it is. I have, it must be said, a particularly diffuse personality - I forget things, a lot, put things down and forget where they are, fail to plan things. Introspection identifies this as a mixture of acrasia and propensity to boredom—I find it very difficult to concentrate on mundane things instead of thinking about neural networks or politics.
I’ve unfortunately chosen a line of work (molecular biology) that punishes absent mindedness ruthlessly. After months of failure and avoidable errors, and experimentation with checklists etc etc. mindfulness meditation appears to be helping. It’s also transforming my experience of life in general—meditation led me to end a stagnant relationship, and seems to be effecting my thoughts on political matters.
I seem to have benefited uncommonly from meditation. I ruminate less, I work more, and I’m even starting to lose things less. Has anyonebody else with this personality trait found the same?
I don’t know how I rank on the absent-mindedness scale compared to everyone else, but I definitely find that during those periods of my life where I’m working on training attention (mindfulness meditation is often a part of that), I get more done and I keep track of things more reliably.