When we focus on one thing, the brain actively filters out information that might distract from the task at hand.
Instead, they are coached to focus on one thing: the next challenge.
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When an organization becomes very good at something, top of its industry, it usually starts to focus on the thing (product, technology, or business model) that made its success, crowding out other options and points of view.
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Simply put, we tried to learn how to focus on one thing at a time and how to fully become absorbed in that mindful study without yielding to the thousands of thoughts that our minds can produce.
Usually whatever's in front of me is the thing that I focus on, and I don't think, I never think past the thing that I'm doing right now.
What if you had no outside distractions and could focus on just one thing?
It was a long-sought opportunity to focus on just one thing: her singing.
Pinterest, Reddit, and others are seeing massive growth thanks to a pretty clear focus on doing one thing well.
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True, not even mega-bucks Gates can attend to everything that aches in the K-12 (and now also postsecondary) sphere, and focus is a good thing.
It's tough to establish boundaries and focus on any one thing.
Wall Street is notorious for its ability to focus on only one thing at a time, and at the moment that thing seems to be the Eurozone.
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This thing is basically an AWD Focus with a big hat, and that's not a bad thing.
The first thing is to focus on how you gather ideas and intelligence on your industry and customers.
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But he said the important thing was to focus on "getting education right".
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Day after day, as I retraced the scars over my eye from the operation, the only thing I could focus on was the present.
So when I hear the Speaker or the Senate Republican leader wanting to dicker, wanting to see what can they extract from us in order to get this done, my response to them is, just do the right thing: Focus on the American people, focus on the economy right now.
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So the American -- so the President believes -- again, because he will put forward proposals that we believe should have bipartisan support, that faced with that imperative -- because everyone here is working for the American people, and the members of Congress, like the President, were elected by the American people -- will do the right thing and actually focus on the issues that matter, which -- the economy and jobs.
The Multitasker: This person absolutely cannot focus her attention on just one thing at a time.
Pinetti said one thing Kimpton does is focus on renovating old buildings for its hotels rather than building new facilities.
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So that's probably the first thing that you really focus on.
And, if you think of other great organizations that you know, perhaps Pixar, Toyota, Ritz-Carlton or Dell when it was on its great run, what you see is the same thing: an absolute focus on the vision, and reinforcement across all of the managerial choices.
Our focus has been on doing the right thing, not getting credit for it.
The main thing for Mandy was to focus on her goals and keep her eyes peeled for Greg.
One thing seems certain: The focus on bullying will lead to more lawsuits against schools and bullies, many of which will stretch the limits of empathy and patience.
With Gen Petraeus taking over at Centcom, some Nato partners wobbling about keeping troops in Afghanistan and the US presidential election like to produce a new focus on the conflict there, one thing we can expect is for a clearer command structure to be established in 2009 with the Americans more obviously in charge.
Actually, the thing that is most often the focus is the "current account balance", which means trade in goods and services plus some financial items, including remittances that migrant workers send home.
The important thing, he says, is to focus the public on two alternative end states.
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