In his book CrazyBusy : Overstretched, overbooked, and about to snap: Strategies for coping in a world gone ADD,  Dr. Edward M. Hallowell talks about being too busy seems necessary & unavoidable in this modern age and it becomes an habit, leads to postpone or cut shorts what really matters to you most. This makes you a slave to lifesyste so busy that you don’t take time to decide what actually does matter most to you.  There are many take-aways in this book of which C-State & F-State was particularly interesting.

 

C-State is clear, calm, cool, collected, consistent, concentrated, convivial, careful, curious, creative, courteous, and coordinated. On the other hand, F-State fractuces focus and is frenzied, feckless, flailing, fearful, forgetful, flustered, furious, fractious, feverish, and frantic.  

 

In C-State you found your rhythm, in F-State you have lost it. The overloaded world that we live in makes it is easy to move from C-State to F-State, in which time and attention can be depleted before the day's work has even begun.  F-State resembles ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).   Life is a powerful accelerator these days; what separates the successful from the frustrated is the quality of their brakes and their ability to use them.  The challenge of modern life, even for people who do not have ADD, is to learn how to put on the brakes.

 

Whether you call this ADD, F-State, attention deficit trait, or just modern life, the goal should be turn all this into an advantage.  The author uses the same techniques that he uses for his ADD patients to teach how preserve C-State and if you lose it, to get from F-State to C-State.