Re: Personality Question

Hi VP,

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, veritosproject wrote:
>
> Is it just me, or do we all seem to be the types of people that either:
> 1) start a project, get bored, and then in a couple days move on to
> something else,
> or
> 2) get carried away on our projects?
>
> The first seems to be the funlangers, and the second seems to be the
> conworlders.
"Bored"?  What's "bored"?  Everything I do is
endlessly fascinating ... ;-)

Guess I'm more the obsessive type, as in 2).
But since I lack a single, overriding focus, I can
give myself a break from my current obsession
in one field by, you guessed it, switching to my
current obsession in another.  So I usually have:
 - a musical project,
 - a visual arts project,
 - a language project,
 - a programming project,
 - a gardening project,
 - a fitness project,
 - a home improvement project,
 - etc,
all going on at once.

Tho I will drop any of those projects at a
moment's notice to write a poem; since those
take between 10 minutes and a couple of hours
to crystallise into their final forms, they're
something I can begin and end on the self-same
day.

Until my recent illness, this way of working has
let my subconcious solve all sorts of difficulties
in the other projects, whilst my conscious mind
focusses on a particular one, or even on real
(paid) work.   Over the years, it's let me do much,
much more than I would otherwise have done.
(That, and my habit of not sleeping more than
4 or 5 hours a night - the extra hours are a real
boon to an obsessive!)

Regards,
Yahya

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