knitting for the mind

[oelear13]

Now that winter has returned I have returned to the new hobby I picked up last year - knitting. It was somewhat out of desperation knowing I couldn't buy gifts for people (I apologize to those of you who received one too many scarves...) but I do truly enjoy crafts and hobbies. Call it conditioning, growing up with all the craft supplies my

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[madeofmeat]

I've experienced a similar problem in reading. I often find myself skimming and missing details when I really want to actually read each word. Part of it is spending too much time on the web, where I would rather glean a moderate amount of knowledge about a lot of things than perfect comprehension of each article, but I think a lot of it is due to simply being an adult and working in the for-profit world. Most of the time, it's more important to just get stuff done than to focus on minutiae and do everything perfectly. Our brains get conditioned away from perfection. I remember that, growing up and all through college, I could recall the absolute location in my dorm room/apartment of every single thing I owned. Now, I have to file and organize to know where things are, and I have to check those locations to see if I even own the thing I want. It's not because I have more stuff (I don't, really) but because my brain has changed