Ok when I play osu everytime I play I always look at the next note if it's a slider and otherwise I seem to only look at the general direction of every note I dont't always look exactly at one note onle every once in a while I do. Is this normal?
I usually have an open mind and look at the screen as a whole. Not literally, but like more perceptive to other notes that appears on screen while I'm focusing on the current ones.
Personally, the less I will look at a circle, the more luckily I will be to shit miss it.
But if you don't have any big shit miss issues and feel comfortable with the way you read patterns, I don't see any problem.
I think there's a lot of people who just look in the middle of their screen to read. Not sure to understand how they don't shit miss on anything though.