Re: The Sixty-hour hyperfocus COMA

[Anonymous]

JayBird, I get sidetracked like that all the time on some very unproductive websites. Ebay is a deadly time waster. I just like looking at all the old cars. Or the old toys I had when I was a kid–Major Matt Mason ROCKED! Don’t even get me started about baseball season–I’ve wasted months on internet baseball forums. I get in a lot of fights on the internet, too.

I printed everything out and bound it this morning. It should be a really cool book, I hope Ma likes it. Now maybe I can get some sleep. I’ve stayed up until midnight every night this week wrapping up the research. The temptation to continue doing the research at work was almost impossible to overcome, but I pulled it off. But now I’ve lost interest and want to move onto something else.

Three or four weeks ago we had the same kind of weekend rain and I had nothing to do. The object of my hyperfocus then was researching new golf clubs. I looked at EVERYTHING and even found a system that some club designer has come up with to rate the clubs with regard to playability and matching them to a player’s skill level. I spent hours reading, entering the data into a spreadsheet, comparing it, running analyses of my own–THEN I went to a shop late that Sunday and hit balls into a net. I managed to narrow it down to two different models. I really liked them, but wasn’t ready to pull the trigger just yet…

All of those printouts are in a pile on my desk at home. I never bought anything.

So many times I have delved into some subject, spent hours reading or learning about it, then just tossed it aside. I can’t just casually read a book for an hour every night. It either sucks and I throw it away, or else I love it and won’t put it down until I’m finished. There’s no in-between. No moderation there.

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