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

Brain: about the Human BrainDefinitions - Spirited Words DefinedThinking as in Think and Grow Rich

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.