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What Is the Difference Between Internal and External Focus of Attention?
What you tell athletes or performers to focus on actually has a lot of impact. Gabriela Wolff is the main scholar in this field. She started doing some work with colleagues in the late 1990s where she sort of divided attentional focus into two main categories. The internal focus would be focusing on your body or movement itself. Whereas an external focus would beocusing on the consequence of your movement or body.