Mental Focus Research Paper

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Mental Focus
When examining our performances often times the lack of mental focus gets lost in our attempt in understanding of why a performance may have not gone well. As we know mental focus is a major factor to having a successful performance, but too often we do not consider it when preparing ourselves for a performance. During a performance the performer should not allow the mind to wondering, there should be some level of awareness at all time. Some people may refer to this as staying in the moment. Legendary martial arts Bruce Lee once said, “A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in the state of awareness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive; it includes everything.”
When performing having a strong

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