Week 1 - Summary TED article

Focus

Living life always comes along with difficulties and perhaps even distractions you might be completely unaware of. This is why focus is one of life’s most important aspects.

When you closely look at successful people, you will most assuredly draw the same conclusion as I do which is that all these people have applied a great amount of focus in their lives. Focus is predominant in everything they endeavour and this ultimately leads to a true accomplishment, also known as success.

The founder of Google, Larry Page, has claimed that goals are extremely important in your life and a goals should always be accompanied by focus, which leads to success. For certain people it might take a while before they have found their goal(s) in life, but once you have found them, states Larry Page, you need to be single-minded about it. Successful businesses are successful because they focus; they are assertive and have clear and fixed goals.

The unfortunate pitfall many people are being lured into, is dabbling. Dabbling firstly distracts you from having a clear and fixed focus in life and takes up sumptuous time and energy which should be put into your personal qualities. This will allow people to not be good at a lot of matters, but to be great at one matter. People should enable themselves to be great, or even exceedingly good, at performing their individual qualities. A grand idea of this is how Quincy Jones predicated that he wasn’t able to drive a car because he was too busy making music and that ultimately made him great. Driving a car wouldn’t have added to his abilities, but would have been a distraction.

Distractions keep you off the board and should be eliminated as much as possible. The act of eliminating distractions is extremely personal and you should examine yourself carefully in order to dose elimination and focus sensibly. Eliminating distraction can be done by listening to music, while listening to music can be a distraction to others. Learning how to condense goals and therefore focus is a process and this is closely accompanied by practise.

As stated, focus is extremely important in life because it allows you to be exceed in one matter instead of experiencing mediocre results in a lot of aspects you endeavour. Concentrating on the important matters in your life is a process which has to be learned and which keeps you from dabbling. Focus is the key to success and the most important tool accompanied by it is concentration on a personal goal.

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