Fundies -- my bottom line

[gcbryan]

Except I would think the task-focus I appear to communicate that I have would be associated with Western, work-related riding? I've never been a Western person.

In medicine, the ability to focus despite peripheral distractions is incredibly useful.

In diving, the tendency to focus to the point where you ignore peripheral distractions is dangerous.

Somehow, I need to learn how to switch between the two modes.

That's an interesting point, shifting between the 2 modes is involved in many activities. The more common I think is to work from the "big picture" but also to be ready to shift to get very focused for the lesser periods of time where that is required.

In flying you spend most of your time dealing with the overall environment, it's the same with alpine climbing, but with either when the sh#% hits the fan your life depends more on the shorter periods of time when total focus is required.

Actually I would think it's the same in medicine. I would think you would have to look at the overall picture to diagnose someone rather than to focus narrowly on symptoms but once you figure out what the problem is I would think that now you need to focus and ignore all the "noise".