{"id":1747,"date":"2014-08-14T01:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T06:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2014-07-28T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:39:28","slug":"mental-concentration-and-awkwardness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/08\/mental-concentration-and-awkwardness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Concentration and Awkwardness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looks are often deceiving. Especially how you look when you are concentrating.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many years ago, a college professor told a calculus class I was in something like, &#8220;People think you are wandering the campus absentmindedly when the opposite is true. You are in deep concentration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I often find myself standing to walk away from my computer unable to do what I intend. My muscle ache and are stiff.<\/p>\n<p>I have been sitting still too long. I have been concentrating my\u00a0 mental faculties on something too long for my physical muscles.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, not often enough, I set a timer next to the computer. The timer pings me after 25 minutes. I then spend five minutes standing, walking, and stretching, a.k.a., reactivating my body.<\/p>\n<p>When you see someone stand and freeze in pain, they have probably been concentrating. Ask them the subject of their concentration. The answers could be enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Looks are often deceiving. Especially how you look when you are concentrating. Many years ago, a college professor told a calculus class I was in something like, &#8220;People think you are wandering the campus absentmindedly when the opposite is true. You are in deep concentration.&#8221; I often find myself standing to walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,50],"tags":[203,172],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breathe","category-thinking","tag-breathe","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}