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Ruphus -> RE: How do luthier/players protect their nails? (Jan. 16 2012 11:05:24)
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ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson
... Its all about being there and not working to fast, not doing multiple tasks....
On a side road:
Funny how this with doing multiple tasks is so much in the media these days. Its like its not ok to focus and concentrate on one thing only. Especially women are so proud of their capacity of multitasking. My life is so much about going against this trend. I like concentrating on one thing a time. wheater I build a guitar or a boat, its all about being there and saying that means a lot of preparation. I enter my workshop from society with all its stress etc. and I need time to kind of go back in time and find my real me. The one I am when I´m allowed to be so. If I skip that step, I dont build (or play) well. Fortunately, with experience you learn to go from one dimension to another faster.
My bro was a doer. A company owner who´d often be in more countries per week than it has days.
He seemed to multi task like a calculation center, hopping back and forth between people, plots and parts. Obvioulsy, he was optimally trained in switching focus while impressively keeping string of consciousness on return to a matter.
Already some ~ 25 years ago it was found that the human brain cannot really manage multiple tasks at once. Yet, the message seems to not have reached manager circles who to this day like to pose with what they consider to be multi tasking, and at the same time mental elevator above mere mortal pedestrians.
Just on Saturday there was another report on a recent study that revealed one other time how trying to solve multiple tasks simultaneously will only prolong work. It was noted that efficiency lies in preparation and scheduling for unwinding one task after the other.
Besides suiting me personally, who had to accept from early on that I can only deal with one thing at a time. ( When reading for instance I´ll hardly even notice if you speak to me.)
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Fashionable managing departments might understand one day. Realizing that juggling half a dozen of phones, and offices light up till night won´t be equalling mastery.
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I love carpentries ever since, not only for the wonderful material, but also for their quiet, contemplative and great smelling atmosphere.
Hadn´t that old grumpy guy constantly been kicking me out of his workshop when I was 12; chances would have been not too small of becoming a joiner - and then rather likely a guitar maker.
Ruphus
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