However, hyperfocus is not always described in a positive light.

Everything was in hyperfocus, the way the world gets on an adrenaline high.

Hyperfocus may bear a relationship to the concept of flow.

Also, boys hyperfocus on facts and certain interests, such as trains or weather.

The first time a Spark enters hyperfocus is often traumatic.

Medical experts maintain that hyperfocus is not sustainable over the required hours of operation.

Hyperfocus may in some cases also be symptomatic of a psychiatric condition.

Hyperfocus on a certain subject can cause side-tracking away from assigned or important tasks.

A relatively safe and rich environment replaced "hyperfocus" with social cohesion.

Flow has many of the same characteristics as (the positive aspects of) hyperfocus.

It was a kind of hyperfocus, and it wasnt just sight.

My ability to hyperfocus has helped me with my studies and my music: I can hear sounds that others can't.

In some cases, hyperfocus can "capture" a person, perhaps causing them to appear unfocused or to start several projects, but complete few.

Thus it is both a concentration deficit and over-concentration, or generically: "hyperfocus."

“One is biological, there’s something going on in the brain that compels them to hyperfocus on money.

What do they say, hyperfocus and macrofocus?

To maintain a sense of calm, Wood remembers simply reverting to hyperfocus, becoming "fixated on something."

He also celebrates what she calls her "something shiny syndrome," how she becomes distracted by new or interesting things and tends to hyperfocus on them.

Theyre like this hyperfocus predator.

That's why the current myopic hyperfocus on smartphones and tablets is starting to feel a bit like steering from the side-view mirrors.

However, unlike hyperfocus, "flow" is often described in more glowing terms, suggesting they are not two sides of the same condition under contrasting circumstance or intellect.

In people who are both intellectually gifted and suffer a learning disability, the state of hyperfocus and flow can be confounded with perseverance.

It is argued that in the hunter-gatherer cultures that preceded farming societies, hunters needed hyperfocus more than gatherers.

And Jong and I agree more than Granju would that the new hyperfocus on children sometimes goes to far, with unintended consequences as they get older.

A person will still demonstrate social awkwardness, an affinity for flapping arms, and a hyperfocus on certain topics before and after an autism diagnosis, after all.