It seems that the only examples of my use of deep attention that I can recall are related to school assignments. This goes all the way back to grade school, where the majority of assignments are long readings, tests, or projects. Now, in college most assignments are long readings and papers. Sometimes, I have to carve out large blocks of time to sit down and work on a single paper. This relates back to Hayles’ example of using deep attention to solve complex problems. Writing an argumentative essay could be an example of a complex problem. The problem being in effectively using pertinent research to formulate a strong argument, requiring several hours of attention of the deep mode to solve. The benefit in this lines in training a long attention span and ability to solve complex problems, which in this case is the paper.  A major limitation to this type of attention is that it is very attention draining. This is because I have to divert almost all of my cognitive resources to solving a single problem and end up ignoring the outside environment and other tasks. During the course of any given day, I can easily find myself constantly using hyper attention. During my free time, I listen to music and surf the web at the same time. All the while switching between several phone apps. A benefit to this is that I can make my way through several online articles, videos, and social media postings in an expedited manner. However, a drawback is that after conducting the given session of hyper attention, I find it hard to switch back to deep attention in order to read a longer article or book.