Some people find that their minds simply cannot stay inside one or two areas. While they are absorbed in one subject, their thoughts are drawn unconsciously towards another, so they have to keep making an effort to focus only on the activity in front of them. So what is a multidimensional mind, and why is choosing where to focus so hard for the people who have one?
What is a multidimensional mind?
A multidimensional mind is one that cannot limit itself to a single framework. Because it keeps moving between areas, it is more prone than other minds to jumping about and losing focus. It also hesitates over priorities, unsure which area deserves its thinking first and which can wait, which is part of the wider question of why the brain waits before it decides.
People with a one-dimensional, limited mind have little choice but to focus on one or two areas, and over a whole life the areas they work in may number fewer than the fingers of one hand. That makes choosing easier, which is an advantage in its own right, because they know their task, spend most of their time in that dimension and may achieve great success there. Someone with a multidimensional mind is choosing all the time, and that makes the job harder. People who work across several areas may also be less successful than someone who concentrates on one or two, since they have to divide their time and thoughts between many things, much as trying to do several things at once tends to cost us something on each of them.
Time is the real limit
Time and energy are limited, and for someone involved in many activities, time cannot be stretched: a day is 24 hours for everyone, no more and no less. Yet if we look at overall achievements from a distance, the people with multidimensional minds who have learned to manage their time and their minds take on a much greater and more varied range of tasks than people with a single-dimensional mind.
Someone who deals with a limited number of fields has a greater chance of success, but the result is not always like this. Sometimes, through the intense activity of their grey cells and the very high readiness and speed with which they carry out activities, the success of multidimensional people is much greater. One familiar example is Professor Mahmoud Hesabi, a prominent Iranian scientist who worked in various fields and whose work was brilliant in both quantity and quality. There is no shortage of such prominent individuals around the world.
The challenge of choosing and prioritising
The biggest challenge for people with multidimensional minds is perhaps the hesitation over choosing and prioritising activities in a limited time. Sometimes a lot of time passes and they are still undecided about which activities to do and which to postpone. The stress of lacking time then leads to wasting time, and they should take care not to fall into that deep trap.
Getting the best from a multidimensional mind
Even with these challenges, people with multidimensional minds can make good use of the special advantages of their brains if they manage the different dimensions of their minds. Managing time and prioritising activities by their value can lead to better performance and more favourable results, provided they do not allow those dimensions to keep jumping around. If they do, either many of their activities stay unfinished forever or the results are not very desirable.
Although the quantity of time we have cannot be increased, its quality can be improved with proper management. Mind and time management are therefore essential for accomplishing more activities with the results we want.
FAQs
- What is a multidimensional mind? It is a mind that cannot limit itself to one or two areas, so while it is involved in one area its thoughts are drawn towards another and it finds it hard to stay within a single framework.
- Why is it hard for a multidimensional mind to focus? It is constantly choosing which area to give priority to and which to postpone, and it is more prone than other minds to jumping around and losing focus.
- Do multidimensional minds achieve less? Not necessarily. Someone who works in a limited number of fields has a greater chance of success, but multidimensional minds that manage their time and thinking well can take on a much more varied range of tasks, and sometimes their success is much greater.
- How can a multidimensional mind get better results? By managing time and prioritising activities by their value, and by not letting the different dimensions of the mind keep jumping around, so that activities are finished rather than left unfinished.
Takeaway
A multidimensional mind brings both range and hesitation, because it is always choosing between areas in the same 24 hours that everyone has. Time cannot be increased, but good mind and time management can improve its quality and help these minds finish more of what they start.
