The Attentional Mechanisms of the Forebrain

The way to think about focus is that we are old world primates and we can do something called covert attention. You're taking action, but you're not running the feedback and seeing how this action is affecting everything else that's happening around you. Then you have to go back and observe how it's impacting the scenario and then orient yourself to where you are now. So this idea of spinning plates is very interesting to me because they're out there. Some people experience overwhelmed trying to do two things.