Ok, fair enough. However, I don’t think it’s fair to say that people in roles that require high degrees of concentration are necessarily insane (the sense you described in your original response, cut off from key elements of themselves outside their primary or most frequent object of attention). There is a risk of becoming too attached to the object of concentration if one isn’t careful, sure, but I’d say most folks (even the examples you give) move in and out of that specific attention state, and switch focus quite frequently.
Do people get jammed up sometimes (e.g. a limited set of concentration objects, creating imbalance and suffering negative impacts from that)? Absolutely, and techniques like meditation (among others, including just setting aside time to do other stuff or be present with other people) can help with ‘widening the aperture’ so to speak. But there are people out there who maintain a balance - I’d say this is true of many high achievers (though not all).
Personal question (you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to): do you have anyone IRL you discuss this kind of stuff with? Meditation group or zen discussion group or anything? If not I think it might be useful to seek that out, if only to bounce these concepts around.
Ok, fair enough. However, I don’t think it’s fair to say that people in roles that require high degrees of concentration are necessarily insane (the sense you described in your original response, cut off from key elements of themselves outside their primary or most frequent object of attention). There is a risk of becoming too attached to the object of concentration if one isn’t careful, sure, but I’d say most folks (even the examples you give) move in and out of that specific attention state, and switch focus quite frequently.
Do people get jammed up sometimes (e.g. a limited set of concentration objects, creating imbalance and suffering negative impacts from that)? Absolutely, and techniques like meditation (among others, including just setting aside time to do other stuff or be present with other people) can help with ‘widening the aperture’ so to speak. But there are people out there who maintain a balance - I’d say this is true of many high achievers (though not all).
Personal question (you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to): do you have anyone IRL you discuss this kind of stuff with? Meditation group or zen discussion group or anything? If not I think it might be useful to seek that out, if only to bounce these concepts around.
So in summation, “nuh uh”.
Well you wouldn’t know what’s lost until you see it yrself.
From what I’ve seen, it’s vast. What remains is a single sunflower seed left from the whole flower.