Focus

Focus has several meanings:

• In optics, focus means that an image is correctly rendered on a plane. This involves the focal length of specific lenses.

• In personal development, focus refers to directing one's attention and energy towards a specific area or areas of personal improvement that most align with your most important goals and/or values. It's especially about intentionality when choosing which aspects of yourself to develop and work on to achieve peak performance in an area of better overall version of yourself. See: Focus (personal development)

• In psychology, focus as a cognitive process means concentrating selectively on a single aspect of one's environment or thoughts while ignoring other things

• In geology, a focus is a point along a fault where an earthquake begins (hypocenter versus epicenter).

• In Buddhist meditation, focus means concentrating the mind selectively on a single aspect of one's thoughts or images while letting go of all other things until the mind become "single-pointed" ("samadhi") through relaxed focused awareness ("shamatha"). According to Buddhism, focus is related to the "fire element" of the mind and nervous system.