How to Sustain Concentration on the Abstract

focus on abstraction is something we've had to teach our brains to do much more recently in our evolutionary history. We're basically high jacking other parts of our brain to do this type of symbolic processing with sustained attention at level that we never really evolve to do. School gives us that practice, right? When you have to sit there and work on the calculus problem or do the book report, you are implicitly training your mind to do this kind of sustained focus. The issue is, this training is implicit. It's just something that you kind of get. But because it's not a ter one focus of our education, what happens is, as we say, well, this seems too hard