From October 29, 2012 (edited):
In our advanced, and perhaps peculiar world, focus is important because without it there would be no "work" done. Most blue and white-collar workers are chosen for their ability to do one thing very well, and they are chosen to do that one thing all day without distraction from an outside source.
But it is a terrible thing to think of focus as important. We seem color-blind (so to speak) to the idea that being unable to concentrate can be just as productive. For instance, as an artist, I was taught that working on the same section of a drawing to its completion would throw the proportion out of shape. An artist must work on the drawing as a whole, moving from one section of the drawing to the other, working up the surface with shading and shape. Focus, in this definition, is diverted to the whole, not the individual aspects.
Of course, just as understandably, finishing the said drawing is a testament to focus as well. It is just as much focus as staring at a moving conveyor for undesirable products, or writing down what people are saying in a court room. The difference is how important each seems to different people.
And, so you know, the ultimate thing that is important is if find purpose in what you do.
- Anya
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