On Completing and Accomplishing Things

Hello; I have been gone for a while. I have had a lot happen in my private life and I'm soon to start a PhD program, so I'm pretty busy.

I would like to talk about how the schizotype gets things done. This may seem to be a boring subject, but it is important because completing tasks effectively is critical to live independently from day to day. You may think that the schizotype does not differ from normal people in this respect, but the truth is that they usually do.

The normal way of getting things accomplished requires a moderate amount of focus as well as linear thought and action patterns, meaning that if a person wants to get Task Z done, then they have to first follow Step A, B, and so on to the last required step. This is typically not what the schizotype does. As I may have mentioned earlier, the schizotype generally lacks the amount of focus that normal people seem to have, and as such they may go from action to another action, and thought to another thought that may be tangentially if at all related. As such, they are more likely to do steps in terms of "piecework"; working on one set on steps, and then switching to another, more distant set of steps or they may even stop the task and go on to either work on another task or simply wander around.

You may think that this is all negative, but it isn't necessarily. The schizotype may gather some important insights that the normal person may not gain, and their ways and methods of accomplishing tasks may be more creative or innovative. It shouldn't really be regarded as a symptom of dysfunction as long has it doesn't keep the schizotype from effectively living their day to day life.