When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.
To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.
The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
You need to have laser focus on doing your job.
If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.
When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.