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I like to think of energy levels like the field of view (FOV) of a camera. The more energized you are, the wider FOV that you have, you see more opportunity, naturally curious. The more tired that you are, the narrower your focus, the less attuned you become to opportunities that arise. Pessimistic you become. You start to see the world is increasingly narrow and set. You don't see opportunities beyond it. You make decisions based on narrow outcomes.
The narrowness also invites everything around the area of the FOV to be dark. You can only take certain kinds of pictures, limited pictures.
I think when you rest, you often gain a wider field of vision. I think that's why when people often report solving problems, the first thing they wake up in the morning, or maybe they have a dream that solves their problem. Essentially, I think their field of view increases again. The more opportunities you see, the more you see how one thing that you didn't think connects to this other thing connects. You start to see connections that you missed. And by seeing connections that you missed, you often come to the conclusions that you would not have come had your FOV not been wide enough.
Also, wider FOVs in a sense mean that you pick up on more things, you pick up more things into the picture. But the picture itself, when you're reviewing the picture, you can only pick up so much at a time. So it's almost like taking the picture is different from looking at the picture itself. When you're looking at the picture, you don't even see the whole picture. You're also focusing on certain elements at a time. So there's this dual nature of information that you come across - pictures that you take in, informations that you retrieve from informations that you've saved that you must then sort through and then make connections yourself. There's an element of seeing and encountering and there's an element of retrieval and connection making. I think it's easy to confuse the two because the act of taking a picture feels like not different from the picture itself, but often the recollection and memory of the picture itself is just as unique and different of an experience as capturing and taking a picture of the moment that you captured to begin with. There's a duality in there that resists simple definition. 5 replies
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