I often have trouble attending to the details in life. I’d definitely consider myself a big picture kind of guy. It’s on odd sort of hyperopia. It certainly has its benefits. One of the reasons people think I’m so smart is that I see connections and patterns that other people miss. I see them, because I’m always focusing on them. But it also has its downsides. Leaving aside the prozaic difficulties of my oft missing keys, glasses, and wallet, there are the larger concerns. “I’m going away in 3 weeks, why should I go out and have fun? In the long run<\/i>, it’s not like I’ll be seeing much of these people, cool though they are.” Then there’s the shit I give myself for not going to the gym, given its clear long run payoff for short term discomfort, boredom, and sacrificed time.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it helps to take my eyes off the prize. Every once in awhile. It’s just that, when I do, I have trouble focusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I often have trouble attending to the details in life. I’d definitely consider myself a big picture kind of guy. It’s on odd sort of hyperopia. It certainly has its benefits. One of the reasons people think I’m so smart is that I see connections and patterns that other people miss. I see them, because … Continue reading “Hyperopia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-navelgazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}