If you don’t look at the big picture sometimes, you may be guilty of attentional blindness.
The best example of this is a video I once saw.
Give it a try:
Don’t get me wrong, focus and the ability to do “deep work” is essential.
But this issue is worth considering.
What are you missing because you are too focused on a technicality?
Or heck, what are you missing at home because you are staring at your phone?
The phenomenon is often termed attentional blindness, a process whereby a focus on one element in a scene causes other elements to disappear;
-Maria Konnikova, Mastermind