Noah

This drawing also gave me a unique experience. It was a commission from an old friend. My favorite scenery is the blue sky and the calming sea, so I never imagined drawing a stormy night. Therefore, finding reference images was quite an experience, a fun little adventure. Recently, while enjoying my freedom, I've also realized that I'm easily distracted by external information. If my phone is next to me, I'll constantly pick it up to check it. If a podcast or music is playing, I'll unconsciously focus on listening, turning what should take an hour into two hours. If someone with a job saw this, they'd probably be shocked by their own inefficiency! So, for this drawing, whether finding references or during the drawing process, I kept my phone far away and didn't play any audio. Even now, as I'm typing, I naturally enter a flow state. Coincidentally, the podcast I listened to today mentioned that the brain's information processing resources are limited. Therefore, many outstanding people may not be much smarter than others, but rather they understand how to allocate and use their attention better. This might actually be true. Take myself as an example: my work efficiency when in a flow state is probably twice that when I'm constantly distracted. This is terrifying. A quick swipe on my phone consumes a ton of time without absorbing any useful information. Interestingly, this is also how dopamine is produced. That little devil of a brain has absolutely no resistance to dopamine, so even if you use willpower to resist it this time, you'll need to expend even more resources to do so next time. Therefore, until I can control my attention, artificially modifying my environment—keeping my phone on Do Not Disturb, avoiding seeing it, practicing continuous meditation, and cuddling with my cat less—creating an environment where I can focus on inputting and outputting a single type of information is currently the best option for me.