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Improving Attention, Focus, & Concentration --- starting with understanding them

by Rick Baker
On Sep 28, 2015

Spirited definitions...


Attention is when interest is captured.

Concentration is when Attention is narrowed.

Focus is when Concentration is intensified.


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Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Attention

  • the act or power of carefully thinking about, listening to, or watching someone or something
  • notice, interest, or awareness
  • special care or treatment

Concentration

  • the ability to give your attention or thought to a single object or activity
  • the ability to concentrate
  • the act of giving your attention to a single object or activity
  • a large amount of something in one place

Focus

  • a subject that is being discussed or studied 
  • the subject on which people's attention is focused
  • a main purpose or interest
  • a point at which rays of light, heat, or sound meet or from which they move apart or appear to move apart
  • the point at which an image is formed by a mirror, a lens, etc.

 

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