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# Preliminary Notes Re: Focus
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/preliminary-notes-re-focus/
- Published: 2022-01-18T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-24T01:13:59.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Briefly, Focus, The Hemisphere Hypothesis

### I will be exploring the difference between the left hemisphere's method of focus and the right hemisphere's. For now, I only note that a cottage industry has risen around focus, concentration, meditation, and the desire to rid ourselves of distractions. It's a good thing, but there's a difference between **focus as praying** and **focus as preying**.

### Also: The right hemisphere "yields a broad, vigilant attention" and the left hemisphere "yields narrow, focused attention, mainly for the purpose of getting and feeding." McGilchrist, *The Matter with Things*, 27\. 

### [This review-essay](https://lawliberty.org/book-review/medieval-monasticisms-timeless-lessons-on-concentration/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) starts with the premise that we think that distraction is a contemporary problem, but then explores how it has always been a problem. 

### If you're thinking distraction is only a contemporary thing, you haven't cracked the spine of [*The Philokalia*](https://medium.com/catholicism-for-the-modern-world/how-i-moved-beyond-stoicism-41f824a0b548?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), which was so focused on focus that it devised borderline (borderline only?) heretical methods and ideas to deal with it.