The Evolution of Attention and Concentration

So attention and concentration, I'll just use those for the moment interchangeably is a really fascinating topic. So we've given this attention or visual neuroscientists call it foveation when you use this sort of this narrowing of attention right down into the thing that really matters. Unfortunately, when adrenaline gets really high and this fight or flight response gets in, gets kicks in into high gear, your attention becomes so narrow that you start to exclude things that are extremely relevant. And what often happens is that as our attention narrows, we get stuck in one of those channels. The channel that we get trapped in is the one that we have a tendency to lose focus on - which can be