The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.
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Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.
This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.
The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.
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