Ineffable Ontological Detanglement .: Introspective Assistance & Mental Analysis Manual
Your ability to maintain multiple lines of partial attention simultaneously, your full attention is on all of these partial attentions simultaneously monitoring all of them hopefully generally at basically equal weight however they all have varying levels of priority that govern how often they become the prime focus or exactly how focused and conscious they're running when they're not deemed the prime focus. It isn't multitasking, that has more to do with attentional task sets however in the state of multitasking you have a single attention layer that is keeping a running catalogue of all the things you're switching back and forth from, in this instance this attention layer carrys less weight in monitoring than the single task that is getting nearly your full attention as it should pretty much be static, however if you cannot keep hold on at least some significant level of monitoring it's going to fall apart. An ADD brain is much better at somewhat dropping the details of this running list of tasks and simply maintaining the running list of tasks, easily picking up where they left off once they approach a different task.
Sometimes your layering is not so obvious, the prime layer is you working, the secondary layer is the work manual, the tertiary layer is what is expected of you what you expect of yourself how this task is related to your role and your ego and the power and significance and wonders of your role and your ego. No nobody's really ever escaping that one. Sometimes it's obvious, you clearly see that right now you have two things going simultaneously and you're maintaining both of them internally, you're keeping a deliberate simultaneous watch on both of them.
Sometimes you're keeping a hard watch on not letting the layers bleed into each other or you're going to blow whichever layer it is you're currently focusing on. This demands another layer of attention. You're likely to pretty much be using the same sets of habit formed thinking methods within every layer of attention regardless of your lateral thinking capabilities.
Poor layering ability can cause you to get lost in a problem without being aware of the world outside of this problem declaring the significance of this problem and fixating on a single detail within this problem. This is generally a high left brain low right brain dysfunction however it's also just a general stupid dysfunction.