{"id":1186,"date":"2011-06-02T20:53:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2011\/06\/02\/i%e2%80%99m-not-the-only-one\/"},"modified":"2011-06-02T20:56:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:56:19","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-not-the-only-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1186","title":{"rendered":"Not the only one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the99percent.com\/tips\/7032\/A-Day-Without-Distraction-Lessons-Learned-from-12-Hrs-of-Forced-Focus?utm_source=Triggermail&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=ALL&#038;utm_campaign=MIH%20June%20%2711\">In this article<\/a>, a blogger has come closer to describing one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/03\/\">my March exercises<\/a> than I have been able to do. He explains that \u201cbatching requires more work than not batching. This is why, I now understand, most people are quick to abandon their good-natured attempts to enforce more focus in their day: once it becomes non-obvious how to continue, they toss the goal.\u201d His account of a single day spent with total focus is a better illustration of self-imposed intensity than I ever could put down in this log. Of course, this kind of regimen is not the only exercise that constitutes the ritualized month of March, but it captures something that I never found a way to successfully describe. I should also point out that I find this to be a short-term aid to the reinforcement of more realistic ongoing practices. All hail the mighty ones who can sustain this level of concentration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, a blogger has come closer to describing one of my March exercises than I have been able to do. He explains that \u201cbatching requires more work than not batching. This is why, I now understand, most people are quick to abandon their good-natured attempts to enforce more focus in their day: once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,44,6,34,27,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}