Tendril Theory
Flow
In plain words
When you focus, your mind reaches out like lots of vines. To stop, you have to pull every vine back in. That takes time. Being rushed hurts.
When I’m focused on something, my mind sends out a million tendrils of thought, expands into all of the thoughts & feelings. When I need to switch tasks, I must retract all of the tendrils of my mind. This takes some time.
Erin Human — in their own words
What changes this
Transitions with a runway. The cost is in the retraction, not the task, so the change an environment can make is to stop treating “just switch to this quickly” as a small ask.
Where it is on the map
Area 3 of twenty, printed on the map as Tendril Theory. It borders: