Our capacity for success lies not so much with our intelligence but with our focus. When we mobilize our power of thought toward a single issue for a prolonged time, we can achieve spectacular results. Casual consideration won’t solve today’s problems. To find answers, a person must set all else aside and focus deeply and relentlessly on an issue until powerful new insights emerge.To achieve our goal, we must beware of distractions. Distraction is the temptation to give the focus and energy needed for something highly important to something that is often quite insignificant.Oliver Burkeman once said, “What will your life have been, in the end, but the sum total of everything you spent it focusing on?”