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the quiet superpower everyone wants and almost no one trains.
means The act of concentrating your attention or effort on one thing, or the point at which something becomes sharp and clear.
from Latin 'focus' meant 'hearth' or 'fireplace' — the literal center of the home, where everyone gathered and the fire burned. Astronomers and mathematicians later borrowed it for the point where light or lines converge, and from that bright meeting-point came our modern sense of mental and optical sharpness. The fire at the heart of the house became the fire of your attention.
- latin root
- means hearth, the fire a home gathers around
- attention cost
- refocusing after a distraction takes about 23 minutes
- eye anatomy
- only a tiny central spot sees in sharp detail
- flow state
- deep focus quiets the brain's self-criticism region
battle of verdun — wwi offensive where 700,000+ soldiers died in 1916, grinding attrition warfare
manhattan project — us nuclear weapons program employing 130,000 people during wwii, 1942-1945
apollo 11 moon landing — kennedy's space race goal achieved july 20, 1969 with laser focus on lunar landing