I'm the DM for a group of four min-maxed murderhobos. Every session I ask them for a recap of what happened last session. Everyone that contributes gains inspiration. This was more or less their recap of the previous session:
Players: "We hunted a shark and a dinosaur in the desert, then we got back to the village. Then we got the mission to slay an unicorn and we went to the frozen peaks. We ended up saving the unicorn from a monkey and it asked us to help destroy a statue (actually a warforged, but they didn't know that at the time)"
GM: "Uh... is that all you remember from the last session?"
Player: "Oh, right, we also found a puff of hair while tracking the unicorn"
GM: "... I'm surprised you remember that. I said that just to show you were on the right track. Anything else?"
Players: "I think that was basically it. Hey, can we still get the unicorn's horn that the monkey ate? Maybe we can fix it with superglue?". They then start discussing possible uses for a partially digested unicorn horn.
Meanwhile I'm here on the other side of the DM shield, rethinking my life decisions and wondering why the two headed skeletal dragon that appeared in the village somehow didn't cause a lasting impression, but a random puff of hair did.
tldr: if the murderhobos didn't fight it, it didn't happen.
Edit: Thanks for the award and silver. Yes, this is based on Monster Hunter, but I wasn't sure how many people here would know what is a Cephadrome, Anjanath, Kirin, Rajang, Equal Hunter Weapon and Nakarkos.
I’ve gotten reprimanded by people so many times when I can’t recall information they had given me and I’m starting to get very tired of it. It happens with my mom a lot especially, when I’ve clearly established that I need to be fully attentive in a way that’s comfortable to understand what she’s trying to tell me. I even tell her when I’m not, and she still gets frustrated at me I can’t just be told something important that I’m expected to remember on a whim, and she just doesn’t get it. For me, it takes so much energy to just have a basic conversation in person with most people because I have to balance getting adjusted to the environment, and responding with any body language or words necessary. So, it is important to me that people speak clearly to me or wait until I am best prepared to retain whatever information they are needing to give me. I have talked to a handful of other people that experience the same, and we’ve all agreed on that we tend to force ourselves to be paying the most attention possible when we are accused of not paying any attention, which I find is very ironic.
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DOI/PMID/ISBN: 10.1152/jn.00677.2020
Hello fellow jazz guitarists!
I publish a new lesson video every week and this week's lesson is about a very interesting study on something called "selective attention"
I use this study to extract some game changing guitar practice tips for us.
The video is only about 6 minutes long and it could make a big difference in how we approach music and performing.
I hope you find it helpful or inspiring and that you have an awesome week full of music and creativity.
-Jared
Title sums it up. I’d love a paper reference if you have it as Im not even sure how to seek out a resource for this question.
I know if you focus on something(selective attention)you are also not focusing on something (selective inattention ). How would you explain these two concepts separately?
A question for those who know more than I do: Does selective attention evoke our consciousness or does our consciousness evoke the activation of selective attention system?
References would be useful :)
Hello fellow classical guitarists!
I publish a new lesson video every week and this week's lesson is about a very interesting study on something called "selective attention"
I use this study to extract some game changing guitar practice tips for us.
The video is only about 6 minutes long and it could make a big difference in how we approach music and performing.
I hope you find it helpful or inspiring and that you have an awesome week full of music and creativity.
-Jared
Hello fellow guitarists!
I publish a new lesson video every week and this week's lesson is about a very interesting study on something called "selective attention"
I use this study to extract some game changing guitar practice tips for us.
The video is only about 6 minutes long and it could make a big difference in how we approach music and performing.
I hope you find it helpful or inspiring and that you have an awesome week full of music and creativity.
-Jared
