In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 worldwide bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the trick to powerful and fulfillment: attention.

Combining cutting-edge study with practical findings, Concentrate delves into the science of attention in every its varieties, delivering an extended overdue discussion of the little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an period of unstoppable about Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that today more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive within a complex world.

Goleman boils down attention research right into a threesome: internal, other, and external concentrate. Drawing on rich case studies from areas as varied as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he displays why high-achievers want all three kinds of focus, and points out how those that rely on Wise Practices-mindfulness meditation, concentrated planning and recovery, positive emotions and contacts, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve practices, add new skills, and maintain greatness-excel while some do not.