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AbbeyRoad wrote:Exactly! I think of it as the steepness of the learning curve. Once something gets too easy for me, or I find myself doing the same thing over and over, or reading through a lot of what I already know to find the fewer and fewer nuggets that I don't know, I get bored and I lose interest and I want to move on to the next challenge. It isn't really about looking for novelty so I can experience a brief high. It's more that it takes challenging things to engage me enough that I experience flow, or what I've heard Barbara say, that when you're doing what you love you aren't even there (paraphrasing, of course).
I'm more than one type of scanner. I'm just re-reading Refuse To Choose now, so I don't remember the names of the types of scanners. In addition, to going deeply into certain subjects, I have interests that tend to be grouped by subject and I will drop some things and pick them up again later. Or return to learn something new in the same general area, eg health and wellness.
I was feeling badly about myself that I have lost interest in a lot of what I used to be interested in doing. (I'm having health issues, so that's a lot of it right now.). Then I made the list of the things I've done and know how to do and it's impressive, if I do say so myself.
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