When I knit socks, I practice “Tangential Immersion” . The definition of “Tangential Immersion” is doing 2 tedious tasks simultaneously to keep your brain occupied. Tedious to me means a task that you do “day after day” that takes a long time (it can be dull or tiresome or monotonous), although, I read and knit because the knitting (especially socks) is monotonous but, not the reading. I don’t really have to think about the sock knitting (I have knit a LOT of socks) so, I can focus on the reading. So, instead of “multi-tasking” (which doesn’t really work), I practice “Tangential Immersion” and I knit A LOT of socks.
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