Hyperfocus is an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses consciousness on a subject, topic, or task. In some individuals, various subjects or topics may also include daydreams, concepts, fiction, imagination, and other mind objects. Hyperfocus on a particular subject can cause side tracking of a given task or an important task.
Hyperfocus may have a relationship with the flow concept. In some circumstances, flow and hyperfocus can be a help for achievement, but in other situations or situations, the same focus and behavior can be a duty, distracting from the task. However, unlike hyperfocus, "flow" is often depicted in more glowing terms, indicating that they are not two sides of the same conditions under opposite states or intellects.
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Confusion with perseverance, as clinical symptoms
Hyperfocus may in some cases also be symptomatic of a psychiatric condition. In these cases more often and accurately referred to as perseverance - the inability or disruption in switching tasks or activities ("set-shifts"), or stopping the repetition of a mental or physical response (movement, words, mind) even though none cessation of the stimulus, and that is not excessive in terms of quantity but does not seem to work and involves a variety of narrow behaviors, and not better described as stereotypes (highly repetitive idiosyncratic behavior).
Conditions associated with perseverance include neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly those seen in the autism spectrum (especially Asperger's syndrome), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In the latter, it is informal but perhaps incorrectly termed "hyperfocus" and possibly a coping mechanism or self-regulation disorder symptom - as well as intellectually gifted people and suffering from a learning disability that may have either or both hyperfocus and perseverative behaviors. Other conditions involving dysfunction or dysregulation in the frontal lobe can also theoretically have a similar effect.
It is common for individuals with ADHD to say they are 1), can not focus on boring things and 2), can only focus on things that are stimulating, and often extreme focus . So this is a concentration deficit and excessive concentration, or in general: "hyperfocus." More succinctly, some types of ADHD are difficulty in directing one's attention, (executive function of the frontal lobe), not lack of attention. Glickman & amp; Dodd (1998) found that adults with self-reported ADHD scored higher than normal adults on self-reported ability to focus more on "urgent tasks", such as projects or final preparations. Adults in the ADHD group are uniquely capable of delaying eating, sleeping and other personal needs and remain absorbed in "urgent tasks" for a long time.
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