“You are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don’t exist. In his TED talk he shares a quote from his interview with an American composer, which in my view, perfectly describe the feeling that I had while editing my video’s as a kid. Hungarian psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihaly (Me-hi Cheek-sent-me-hi) introduced the concept of ‘Flow’. The purpose, the experience and the outcome, are different. It is rewarding because it feels like flow, yet the sensation seems more obsessive-compulsive. Often without any real goal or useful result. Hyperfocus to me seems more like mindless behavior. It’s almost like pulling someone out of a dream.”
Their brains just aren’t registering what you’re saying. “Children (who hyperfocus) aren’t being disobedient. I remember knowing it was wrong - but I had to finish it. Which one time resulted in me cutting “pretty shapes” into all my mothers curtains. In the worst cases I would just lock onto something without any clear reason. Great! When I was looking for something in a box for an important school project I had to finish that day, my mind would suddenly decide that the whole box needed to be re-organized and everything had to be labeled. When I found a subject I was interested in, I would research for hours. As a kid, my Hyperfocus would switch on without me having anything to say about it. When I heard about Hyperfocus, it was dubbed “the super power of ADHD” I had read about the benefits, but its inconsistency confused me. Whether this is positive or negative it triggers us to hyper focus on what consumes our thoughts.” It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation of events. “Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. I never felt I lacked the ability to focus as my attention would become deeply fixed on the things I loved, or as Shannon L. My focus solely depended on my interest in the subject or on the way it was being delivered. I never felt I had a problem with attention, but rather felt I had a problem with control. But I have always wondered if ADHD really is an “attention disorder”. Hyperfocus is typically experienced by people with ADHD, predominantly due to a deficit in regulating focus and the depth of attention. Hyperfocus is defined as extreme focus on a particular task, in which time falls away, and the task at hand becomes the only point of attention. Hyperfocus vs FlowĪs a young girl, diagnosed with ADHD, this state could have been labeled as Hyperfocus. Csikszentmihaly would call this state ‘Flow’.
Uninterested in external rewards, forgetting the self, the ego, losing time, forgetting to eat, hand tightly holding the mouse, eyes firmly fixed on the screen. On weekends I would rush to my playground and get lost. He had the equipment, an extensive footage library and a wall filled with music. I would do this at the house of a family friend. Later, I would sit for hours, researching a subject, searching for footage, cutting the pieces together and, to me, most importantly finding and aligning the perfect soundtrack for the emotion I wanted to deliver. First I would “direct” and act in my own short stories. I started editing video’s when I was about 12 years old.
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