Wednesday, February 25, 2015

extreme variability of mental effort (in the same task)

walking down my alley, there are no sidewalks.

I make the slight effort to walk on the tiny edge of the road where cars are least likely to use, and look back regularly.

most of the time this "effort" is tiny. But maybe the eleventh time, I felt it is gonna be way more effortful, and so it actually felt. It even had a physical aspect to the effort.

There is variability. and the same action can take a big turn to be burdensome.

why is it?

1) dynamics. we have flows of energy, attention, and goals in mind.
Sometimes, those do not contradict the looking back, the shifting of attention, or the doing of anything. But sometimes it contradict the looking back or the keeping on track.

2) old buddy Ego Depletion?
Note, that Ego Depletion might partially be the dynamcis discussed in (1) above....


This never discussed effect, I believe is central to many phenomenons

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