Focus and The Marathon Man

[RichardY]

What does it mean to be focused?

 

Specifically what does focus mean as a particular instance? Roses are Red. Is it ever possible to focus on something singular without having context. Could focus be said to be an emotional and logical state? A picture with poor focus is just noise. Without vision what does focus mean? Do more senses mean more understanding?

 

What about long term focus like running a marathon or some other activity, what helps maintain that focus?

 

When I thought about putting "Focus and The Marathon Man" as the title, Marathon Man sounded familiar. Not watched the whole film, but maybe its relevant, the plot at least is on Wikipedia.

 

"Is it safe?"."Is it secret?".

[EclecticIdealist]

To be focused is to have one's attention and efforts directed at a particular locus to the exclusion of other loci which may detract from the effectiveness of that attention or effort in accomplishing a desired outcome.

[RichardY]

To be focused is to have one's attention and efforts directed at a particular locus

So from a..

 

Mathematics stand point, as an example you could have a single locus as a point in space.

To stretch that further you could have two loci as points to construct a circle. (Focus Points, Convergent?(Tautological?))

 

Going more towards Physics and Reality. For a sphere, would not the centre point be infinitesimally small as to not exist.

I think something called string theory, puts forward the idea of particles being strings as opposed to spherical atoms.  (No Focus Point, Divergent)

 

Biological, two images enter the brain, each through each eye, which one is the brain focused on? (No Focus Point, Divergent)

 

Psychological, (No idea), heard that Mike Ceronovich talks about "frames" in his book "Gorilla Mindset" (not read it) I think from a podcast somewhere. (No Focus point, Divergent) 

 

Philosophical, convergence to, cancel out evil? (A "potential" Focus Point, Convergent)

 

to the exclusion of other loci which may detract from the effectiveness of that attention or effort in accomplishing a desired outcome.

So would you say that focus has an ultimate end point?

[EclecticIdealist]

Focus may be narrow or wide, sharp and clear, or fuzzy and indistinct.

 

As for binocular vision, each eye has a focus and the brain attempts to create a monocular image. Sometimes, the brain will substantialy ignore the visual image of one eye because it is distorted from or less intense than the image from the other. One could say the focus of the brain is on the better image.

 

Psychologically, one tends to focus on fulfilling immediate needs, then immediate desires, then longer term needs, lastly longer term desires. The better able we are to shift the focus away from immediate desires to longer term desires, the better off we will generally become.

 

Philosophically, focus is where your attention is.

 

As to an ultimate end-poin5, I don't know the context for the question, but if you mean an ultimate purpose or reason for existing, I would say, "survival".

[RichardY]

Focus may be narrow or wide, sharp and clear, or fuzzy and indistinct.

So could focus be seen as a transfer of information?

 

As for binocular vision, each eye has a focus and the brain attempts to create a monocular image. Sometimes, the brain will substantialy ignore the visual image of one eye because it is distorted from or less intense than the image from the other. One could say the focus of the brain is on the better image.

The better image being influenced by; current frame of mind, being male or female, repeating patterns,spectrum of light, movement, facial recognition etc. Interpretation seems to have a large effect. 

 

Psychologically, one tends to focus on fulfilling immediate needs, then immediate desires, then longer term needs, lastly longer term desires. The better able we are to shift the focus away from immediate desires to longer term desires, the better off we will generally become.

At what point though does a desire become a need? Physiologically you can go without food for more than 30 days, psychologically maybe a lot of people would struggle to fast for 3 days.

 

Perhaps the more you need, the more you are determined. The more you desire, the greater the freewill you experience. 

 

What would be the best desire to hold long term?

 

Philosophically, focus is where your attention is..

and what is "is"? To expand further. (Subtle, but important change from focused to focus.)

 

 

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To be focused is to have one's attention and efforts directed at a particular locus to the exclusion of other loci which may detract from the effectiveness of that attention or effort in accomplishing a desired outcome.

So would you say that focus has an ultimate end point?

As to an ultimate end-poin5, I don't know the context for the question, but if you mean an ultimate purpose or reason for existing, I would say, "survival".

Unintended meaning on my part. As looking again at my question I get the answer "death". Kind of like the film Final destination.

 

To rephrase. 

So would you say that being "focused" "can" have an end-point?

("ultimate end-point" was me contrasting with "outcome")

 

Survival..... An interesting answer to explore. I think most people would say that they are not the same person 20 years a go, both mentally and physically or even perhaps a week a go. Yet something remains.... To be as is(infinity), to not change. If you can not remember, were you even alive.