The e-sports journal - Focus

When someone tells you to focus they often expect you to magically become able to intensely concetrate in a task or objective regardless of the situation, but in fact, concentration is something you can and have to train in order to do it better, faster, and deeper. Your physical muscles and your attention "muscles" have something in common, both have a limited ammount of strenght and their stamina can be trained in order to make them stronger.

The problem about not training our focus is that the time it requires for us to concentrate again after we get distracted is 25 minutes average, that means game over in terms of e-sports, therefore the relevance of training focus as a player is key for success.

You probably been into that situation where at the beggining of the game you say "I am going to carry, let's go", then suddenly everything starts going wrong, you lose your focus, you get distracted by the situation and that motivation, that concentration you collected at the beggining is lost, and as I've said, it takes 25 minutes average to recover it, so it's likely game over.

Distractions are not something exclusively external like a loud noise that disturbs you, a phonecall, your mom knocking your door, it's something that pulls you away from your goals and objectives whether it's coming from your senses, or from within yourself.

Concentrating is key for success but, nowadays, we're constantly distracted, connected every second, we don't enjoy our food because we're sharing what we eat in Instagram, we don't focus while we work because we review our Facebook or Twitter feed, we don't sleep because we're chatting in WhatsApp, we don't take a shower and relax because we rather take a bath and like some photos on Snapchat, we're not able to identify distraction, because we're constantly distracted from everything, and this type of lifestyle makes it even harder to concentrate in a single task.

So... how do we change that?, how do we learn to focus when we require it?

Simple in terms of concept, hard in terms of execution, but we'll have to train 3 disciplines in a dialy basis in order to train our attention muscles.

First discipline, focus. This is relative to our ability to focus in a single object, concept, or image. Second discipline, perception. This is relative to our ability to percieve all singularities of an element. Third discipline, adaptation. This is relative to our ability to move our attention from one element to another without losing intensity.

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