“Nuusukat’u tenap’i yukar’u.” [“The Happy Man Moves About.”] Humans can focus on only one object at a time—this is attentional bias. What feels like multi-tasking is actually a series of attentional shifts. We have a blindness to the duration of attentional shifts hence the perniciousness of distraction technology. We witness this when we see someone stare at their phone far longer than they realize, all the while forgetting that our own peer at the screen is likely equally misjudged in duration. Consider post-accident reports of “I only looked away for a second.” Not likely true, but the blindness has us assume it as true. We have less control over attention than we would like to presume. This is one reason why mulling and stewing in negative/peevish thoughts manifest more often while alone—few human “distractions” to veer our thoughts. Alone time can lead to cycles of repetitive thoughts, if they are n...
Examining & Resurrecting Indigenous Skills and Frontier Rough & Tumble Combat