Law Practice
Aug. 24, 2011
Continuous partial attention and the fear of missing something
Are you "on" all the time? Here's why that can be a harmful state of mind.
The first time I recall identifying this peculiar phenomenon was when I began attending California Coast Music Camp in 1991, after my original cancer diagnosis. CCMC offered more than 20 classes of instruction on such wildly diverse subjects as bluegrass flatpicking guitar, fingerstyle blues guitar, playing African polyrhythms, beginning bossa nova guitar, jazz band and the like. Roughly seven concurrent courses in three designated timeslots. What to study? All of these great teachers an...
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