An enlightning essay about the art and science of focussing. The well known writer, Daniel Goleman, world wide famous for his Emotional Intelligence studies, deals with the "focus", in terms of attention, under several perspectives. He explains the mechanisms of our minds, as bottom-up and top-down systems, which mirror the systems 1 and 2 (respectively fast thinking and slow thinking) of the cognitive psicology (see Daniel Kahneman), to show the underlying biases and euristichs. Delving into topics such as inner rudder, mindfulness, mind wandering, self-discipline outdoing IQ, emotional hijacks, 10.000 hours myth and deliberate practice, he provides a thoroughful range of theories and situations centred on the attention of the human beings. And he suggests that attention, emotional intelligence and performance constitute a triple focus, which emerges as a hidden driver of the excellence. In the end a text to be used as a manual improve the own focus, particularly in decisive situations both in the job and in everyday's life.
