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Sunday, March 26th, 2006 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI have just impressed myself.
It's not often that you realise that you have practiced something so much that it is now second nature. Second nature to the point where you have to make a conscious decision not to do it, like not reading a notice posted up in big, friendly words on a board somewhere, or not reading the headlines on somebody else's newspaper. These are things you just do without conscious thought, and is a different level of behaviour that even say, a virtuoso musician. The maestro, no matter how gifted or talented must at least make the conscious decision to sit at or pick up the instrument before playing it, even if the playing can be done as easily as breathing and take no conscious thought of its own. Reading, however, you cannot turn off. You just read stuff if it's there, even if it is instantly unforgettable.
I have achieved this level of excellence with activity displacement.
I have been just about to sit down and write since 2 o'clock. Without thinking about it, I instead went out and bought groceries. When I cam back, I managed to occupy my time quite nicely without a single conscious thought, and it was only on my fourth descent of the stairs to pick up something I don't really need, that it occurred to me that I was simply avoiding getting on with writing.
And I'm doing it AGAIN!
Right. WRITE.
It's not often that you realise that you have practiced something so much that it is now second nature. Second nature to the point where you have to make a conscious decision not to do it, like not reading a notice posted up in big, friendly words on a board somewhere, or not reading the headlines on somebody else's newspaper. These are things you just do without conscious thought, and is a different level of behaviour that even say, a virtuoso musician. The maestro, no matter how gifted or talented must at least make the conscious decision to sit at or pick up the instrument before playing it, even if the playing can be done as easily as breathing and take no conscious thought of its own. Reading, however, you cannot turn off. You just read stuff if it's there, even if it is instantly unforgettable.
I have achieved this level of excellence with activity displacement.
I have been just about to sit down and write since 2 o'clock. Without thinking about it, I instead went out and bought groceries. When I cam back, I managed to occupy my time quite nicely without a single conscious thought, and it was only on my fourth descent of the stairs to pick up something I don't really need, that it occurred to me that I was simply avoiding getting on with writing.
And I'm doing it AGAIN!
Right. WRITE.