The Discovery of a Lifetime 👁‍🗨

I finally have my technique! Free at last, free at last, thank the Lord, I'm free at last. So, I put my mind over the past few days to find a technique that works for me. It hit me recently, that I waste, or use, a lot of my free time contemplating technical problems at work. But how much of my brainpower goes unused on my own personal problems! With those parameters in mind, I was sitting in the park on 96th and Madison, practicing yesterday, when it came to me. 


If I:
  1. Find a way to keep my focus past 1-3 seconds
  2. Satisfy my mind's predilection for novelty. Current method is to count upwards from 1-30, with colored numbers inside of some shape, such as a hexagon, triangle or square, while attempting to read the letters or words on signs, vehicles, and buildings
  3. Keep pace with what I can already do, in terms of distance (no more than 30-40 feet) currently, extending as I go
  4. Remain still, in order that I may focus better
  5. And make a conscious effort to drop the squint while I'm doing this

I can succeed. Just practicing this set of steps for 5-7 minutes yesterday make the letters pop out on what I was trying to read. Of these, #5 is by far the most important. I also have the trace method, meaning I imagine a colored pen or eraser, tracing the edges of the objects I am looking at. The color is context dependent, on what object I am looking at. This is to reduce strain,  and hold my attention. This is also a backup technique, but it's there if I need.

I'll keep going with this set of parameters and see where it takes me. I've already felt some underlying strain expose itself. I don't quite know if feeling it means it's alleviated but still. Fantastic! 

Forward we go... 👁



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