Is Concentration just focusing your attention?
Why do students have so much difficulty concentrating?
How come they are not distracted when they ride a bicycle?
Do unwanted thoughts haunt them when they play games?
Should they take a break from watching a movie, after every 25 minutes?
Would you like to know the reason behind these questions?
When almost everyone has difficulty doing it, they must be missing something.
Concentration is not what we think it is!
There is a major difference between attention and concentration.
Concentration is quite a complicated process that involves three things as shown in the figure above: Filtering of Attention, Intention to Attend, and Sustenance of Attention.
For more details, see ‘What Psychologists don’t talk about Concentration?