okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Pay attention
When I'm orienteering a lot, when I'm orienteering well, I don't have much trouble paying attention to what I'm doing. When I haven't orienteered recently, my mind tends to wander during a race. That's not good.
With the U.S. Champs coming up soon, and with my lack of recent orienteering, I need to spend some time thinking about how to pay attention.
I wonder if practicing paying attention helps?
Don Alexander has a few thoughts about attention:
Possibly the most difficult job during a race is to maintain concentration and focus. If your attention is diverted to extraneous areas, focus is taken from important priorities. It is important to regain focus on the important priorities as quickly as possible. The longer the process takes, the more time is likely to be lost, and the greater the risk of errors.
There are several tools that help regain lost focus. The most important is simply recognizing that focus of attention has faltered. In many cases this is enough to regain focus of attention.
posted by Michael |
6:26 PM
