Free time....

Pottering is doing things here and there. Bits and bobs... that's English, too. Um... just fiddling around--not really focusing on anything for an extended period of time.

Alex Foster wrote:Pottering is doing things here and there. Bits and bobs... that's English, too. Um... just fiddling around--not really focusing on anything for an extended period of time.

Thank you....I have to read more of your blog too....and I will comment so you know I was there.....

I just put up another schizoid ramble about meaning and life.

I'm trying to decide what I should call those posts. Thoughts from the bland side?

rainbird wrote:what is pottering?

this is the dictionary definition: i think you folks across the pond use "putter" (which i thought was something to do with golf!). i suspect that pottering is something schizoids are particularly adept at.

put·ter1 [puht-er]
1. to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
2. to move or go in a specified manner with ineffective action or little energy or purpose: to putter about the house on a rainy day.
3. to move or go slowly or aimlessly; loiter.
–noun
4. puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.
—Verb phrase
5. putter away, to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste: We puttered the morning away.
Also, especially British, potter.

Thanks for your definition dogtanian.....we call it here puttering around....you are right about that.....keep posting since your posts are always interesting....

I'd never heard of pottering before but it actually describes most of my day. My speciality is pottering when i actually have important things to do. I just sit around watching TV, or reading or surfing the web. I think that's because when i think of doing something and i go mentally through the steps of what i need to do, i feel like ive already done it. Does it happen to anyone else?

crassos wrote:I'd never heard of pottering before but it actually describes most of my day. My speciality is pottering when i actually have important things to do. Does it happen to anyone else?

not the bit about doing it internally, but yes it does seem that i potter more when i have stuff to do. it's mainly a procrastination tool for me. i rarely have things that are urgent but when i do i find ways to put them off.

crassos wrote:I think that's because when i think of doing something and i go mentally through the steps of what i need to do, i feel like ive already done it. Does it happen to anyone else?

Yes. I didn't think of it as an squizoid trait, but it seems logical. We prefer to live our internal worlds, after all. The part I dislike more about writing is actually putting it on paper after I've seen the scene in my brain and I've heard the characters talk. When I was little I often would lie on my bed and imagine the chores I had do until I came back from school, and I would become frustrated when none of that happened at all. It's because we are more conscious of the process of projecting our decisions from our minds into the real world?

Joel Overbeck wrote:It's because we are more conscious of the process of projecting our decisions from our minds into the real world?

Oh, if only it could happen.... "They" say that humans only use 10% of their brain power. Imagine what one could do using another 10%....

I'd like to think that being schizoid could have something to do with that, like...using more brainpower...

I know some may not think like this, but I look at SPD as not a disorder. I actuall don't like the disorder part of the title. But I think its a gift. Out of allll the people I know, I am the most strong, toughest, and independent mentally. I can't be hurt by anyone else. No one can make me happy, no one can make me sad. Only I can do that for me, and I feel that that is how healthy human is meant to be. An individual.

PhoenixJay wrote:"They" say that humans only use 10% of their brain power. Imagine what one could do using another 10%....

"they" also say that's an urban myth. sorry!