The ability to stay steady on one target and ignore everything else operates in the brain's prefrontal regions. Specialized circuitry in this area boosts the strength of incoming signals we want to concentrate on (that email) and dampens down those we choose to ignore (those people chattering away at the next table).
Since focus demands we tune out our emotional distractions, our neural wiring for selective attention includes that for inhibiting emotion. That means those who focus best are relatively immune to emotional turbulence, more able to stay unflappable in a crisis and to keep on an even keel despite life's emotional waves.3
Failure to drop one focus and move on to others can, for ex
ample, leave the mind lost in repeating loops of chronic anxiety. At clinical extremes it means J:>eing lost in helplessness, hopeless ness, and self-pity in depression; or panic and catastrophizing in anxiety disorders; or countless repetitions of ritualistic thoughts or acts (touch the door fifty times before leaving) in obsessive-compulsive disorder. The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.
The stronger our selective attention, the more powerfully we can stay absorbed in what we've chosen to do: get swept away by a moving scene in a film or find a powerful poetry passage ex hilarating. Strong focus lets people lose themselves in YouTube or their homework to the point of being oblivious to whatever tumult might be nearby-or their parents calling them to come eat dinner.
You can spot the focused folks at a party: they are able to im merse themselves in a conversation, their eyes locked on the other person as they stay fully absorbed in their words-despite that speaker next to them blaring the Beastie Boys. The unfocused, in contrast, are in continual play, their eyes gravitating to whatever might grab them, their attention adrift.
The ability to stay steady on one target and ignore everything else operates in the brain's prefrontal regions. Specialized circuitry in this area boosts the strength of incoming signals we want to concentrate on (that email) and dampens down those we choose to ignore (those people chattering away at the next table).
Since focus demands we tune out our emotional distractions, our neural wiring for selective attention includes that for inhibiting emotion. That means those who focus best are relatively immune to emotional turbulence, more able to stay unflappable in a crisis and to keep on an even keel despite life's emotional waves.3
Failure to drop one focus and move on to others can, for ex
ample, leave the mind lost in repeating loops of chronic anxiety. At clinical extremes it means J:>eing lost in helplessness, hopeless ness, and self-pity in depression; or panic and catastrophizing in anxiety disorders; or countless repetitions of ritualistic thoughts or acts (touch the door fifty times before leaving) in obsessive-compulsive disorder. The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.
The stronger our selective attention, the more powerfully we can stay absorbed in what we've chosen to do: get swept away by a moving scene in a film or find a powerful poetry passage ex hilarating. Strong focus lets people lose themselves in YouTube or their homework to the point of being oblivious to whatever tumult might be nearby-or their parents calling them to come eat dinner.
You can spot the focused folks at a party: they are able to im merse themselves in a conversation, their eyes locked on the other person as they stay fully absorbed in their words-despite that speaker next to them blaring the Beastie Boys. The unfocused, in contrast, are in continual play, their eyes gravitating to whatever might grab them, their attention adrift.
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