Intensity

Intensity, as an ideal or virtue, concerns putting your whole attention completely into the task at hand. Intensity takes place entirely in task attention, which concerns only the present moment. Creative work takes place when task attention enters a cloud of unknowing. Most fundamental act of intensity, which shapes task attention, is committing fully to the task at hand. Working with intensity means unitasking. Multitasking is a myth, and it lowers your IQ. Task attention concerns what is real, what really exists. Predictive attention concerns the unreal. Mindfulness is an exercise of task attention. Mindfulness turns off your predictive attention.