I want to study, learn and self teach myself things that interest me like learning the Japanese language and learning how to draw but I’ll also sometimes have the issue of information filling up in my mind and overloading without it actually being retained or only a small amount of information being retained
The overloaded feeling sometimes even leads to mild to worser headaches
I absolutely hate this issue because I love self teaching myself things I’m interested in but this issue stops me from self teaching and learning properly
Unless I’m careful I find I obsess about things, and it isn’t sustainable. Either overload or burn out on it. Nowadays I try to pace my obsessions, do a bit at a time and enforce breaks, sometimes a few days or even weeks. It allows me to think about the subject, lock things down and make links. Sometimes less is more.
For me I become unaware of the passage of time or my surroundings when I hyperfocus.
I will go to look something up and then realize that I have been researching for 3 hours. People will say my name I just appear to ignore them.