Project 1 - Forensic Portrait
three scanned objects: the lights, the stars, and the leaves
Produced for Foundations of Digital Arts I at Tulane University
i wish no one knew anything about me
For this week’s reflection on the book flow, I would like to focus on a small tip that was given by the author, which I have been thinking over especially this week as I have been studying for two tests: the key to happiness and achievement is having a focused attention span. I sounds very facile now that I have typed it out but the examples the author compares together to make his case helped me to realize some of the flaws that I am guilty of when I am trying to accomplish something. By contrasting a yogi to a zen-master, who both direct their attention in different directions, the case is made that one needs to learn to ignore their internal wants and needs to accomplish a goal. At first I thought of ways this skill can be practiced, simply as waiting to go to the bathroom until you have finished an important task, but as the author began to discuss other motivations, such a sexual drive or falling into the social pressures of fitting in society, I noticed how daily life is full of distracting traps. As I was studying for my tests this week, twice I was asked to go out by my friends. Yes, I usually want to have a “good time” and sometimes I have successfully gone out and then woken up early and still managed to get something done, but I analyzed this and thought that this time I didn’t really care if my friends thought I was uncool for staying in, and ducked this social pressure.
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