Concentration as a Discipline ​

The discipline of attentiveness specifically addresses the questions of attention and attention management in activities. It considers questions such as:

• how does the attention mechanism of agents work in general?
• how can one harness the peculiarities of attention?
• how to bypass/compensate for flaws in the built-in perception apparatus?
• what to do in case of attention management failures?
• how to best invest the computational resources of the brain?

The discipline of attentiveness does not address questions such as "what is activity" (this is the subject of methodology), "what are the ways to divide the world into objects" (subject of modeling), "what is important" (subject of praxiology/rationality).

However, concepts from these and other disciplines will be used in the course: knowledge is absorbed not in "blocks," but "in connection with other knowledge." Moreover, it simply will not be possible to do without involving related concepts. For example, it will not be possible to discuss maintaining attention on important things if we do not understand what is important: you simply will not have the resources to focus on everything.

The discipline provides different types of mastery descriptions. For example, it distinguishes "factual" description, that is, the model of the mastery of a specific agent ("my current attentiveness") and "normative" description, that is, what the mastery of an agent "in general" should be like for them to achieve their goals. It also introduces a division of an agent's mastery (both factual and normative) into "fundamental" and "applied."

Enhance your post on attentiveness with information on where you currently realize that your attentiveness does not reach the required qualification. From which course/book did you become aware that something was amiss? Or maybe you have observed someone who is very attentive, and you would like to emulate them?

How did you realize that some of your colleagues lack attentiveness? How did this affect the work of your team (or even the company)? Enhance your post about colleagues.