By signing up for a race in the near future, you will focus on a goal and be motivated to keep practicing for that event.

报名参加最近的一项跑步比赛之后，你就会因此受到激励，紧盯目标坚持不懈地去训练。

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This method gives you a goal to focus on.

这个方法给了一个可以让你专注的目标。

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When you only focus on a big goal someday, it's easy to get burned out by the daily grind.

当你只将注意力放在一个大目标的时候，你很容易就被日常单调的事情磨得筋疲力竭。

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You may not have the physical abilities of an Olympian, but you do have a brain that you can use to focus on a goal as powerfully as any Olympic athlete.

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This line of thinking ignores the principle of indirectness (or obliquity), which shows that in a complex interactive environment, a direct focus on a single goal can elicit reactions which tend to prevent the achievement of that goal.

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But there is a benefit to concentrating on an area of focus without a goal.

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