(from Dec 2013 journal)
The Year 2013 showed that I can "plod through" -- my running habit and my journal habits demonstrate this. These are mild discomforts though. And there remain plentyof things I don't follow through on.
Habit helps us get thorugh routien unpleasant things. What helps us routinely engage in (like gears) real brain work? This doesn't mean arranging, cearing, sorting... but does involves problem solving, translating, summarizing, creating, appleying models (?), analyzing (?).
There's a different setting in the brain between "idling" and "working hard." One is sorta aimed at it's target, the other is laser pointed at it. There's an almost physical sensation of the later happening. It's not pleasant... it's not "comfortable." For example: I'm trying to commit pentatonic C scale pattern all the way up the neck. Or trying to figure out wha thte relative scale degrees are in the pentatonic scale. I-IIIb - IV - V - VIIb .... This example makes sense because I was switiching back and forth between two systems I am learning -- th eentire major scale (where I know I, II, II) and the pentatonic pattern.
How much of normal day activity activate that other, translating brain? The one that works with a high cognitive load?
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