A question of scale...
Apr. 23rd, 2014 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Naturally, yesterday—out of the blue—a completely workable approach to this past week's LJ Idol prompt ("step on a crack") pops into my consciousness. Why this (or a cousin) did not emerge earlier may be due to several factors:
(a) Fixating too hard on one approach. This has the effect of "grinding the gears," mentally. This is, I think, closely related to the definition of insanity that goes, "doing the same thing repeatedly, hoping to obtain a different result."
(b) The "overshoot" effect, which is a term I use to describe what happens when you're unable to perform some task because you're trying too hard. I've touched on this phenomenon several times over the years (links to come later, maybe).
Back to work!
Cheers...
(a) Fixating too hard on one approach. This has the effect of "grinding the gears," mentally. This is, I think, closely related to the definition of insanity that goes, "doing the same thing repeatedly, hoping to obtain a different result."
(b) The "overshoot" effect, which is a term I use to describe what happens when you're unable to perform some task because you're trying too hard. I've touched on this phenomenon several times over the years (links to come later, maybe).
Back to work!
Cheers...