Distraction vs focus:

• You planned to study for the weekend but ended up sitting in front of the TV for another series of Lost (or Prison Break). focus vs distraction; distraction wins.
• You play well during practice but kept shooting air ball during competition coz the audiences’ boo keep distracting you from being focus. you ended up sitting on the bench, worse, causing your team to lose a game.
• You suppose to focus on your blog writing but ended up wasting time surfing net and making useless chat online with friends. focus vs distractions, distraction wins.
• You wanted to put down a few kgs but… well, a cheese cake won’t do much, so there you go, crunch up another piece of tiramisu. focus vs distraction, distraction wins.
• When taking a gang fight in DotA, your team planned to focus fire on Lion but one of your teammates ended up stunning Lich, one disabling Zeus, and one farming creeps behind. focus vs distractions, fail to focus fail to win in DotA.

You might be the next straight A’s student, national basket ball player, blogger of the year, guy with nice body, DotA competition winner… you might be anything succesful, if your will to focus outrun the power of distraction.

Real life stories, real life failures. one cause - distraction overtakes will of focus.

Did money distracts Ronaldinho when he was in PSG?

Did TV entertainment distracts Sergey Bin and Larry Page when they were developing Google (aka BackRub)?

Did the success with Lord of the Ring distracts Peter Jackson away from making the next blockbuster?

Did the fear of failure came close in distracting Jordan when he was making this shot?

Were distractions bothering them? of course not. otherwise, Ronaldinho will not be named Fifa World Player Gala winner for year 2004 &2005 in Barcelona; we might be still using Alta Vista instead of Google nowadays; Peter Jackson won’t be directing King Kong, the next world class blockbuster movie; and Jordan won’t lead Bulls for another run of threepeat in NBA.

Distraction vs focus, who won the fight in you?

Much sex education is learned from porns, agree? they are usually wrong perception though…

There’s an old saying among chinese that reading a good book is like learning from a wise man.

Learning most things in my life via books, i couldn’t agree more with the sayings until one day i realized that publishing a book is couldn’t be done by the author alone. before the book is published, the author’s writing probably gone thru a number of checking and editing by the editors, the publishers, as well as the marketers. in fact, the original idea of the book could had changed entirely due to market consideration or just because the publisher didn’t like it, before it’s been published.

In result, we are actually ‘learning’ from the publisher (that wants to make money from you); to the marketer (with only business in mind); or to the editors; but not the book author when we read a book. yes, we just missed the original raw idea of the author for most cases. In certain situation, i even think the author don’t even know what’s his book about, especially those best sellers.

Come’on, do you think robert kiyosaki and donal trump really sit down and discuss every paragraph of their book ‘why we want you to be rich’? don’t be silly, i bet 90% (or more!) of the book is written by their shadow writter - the publisher just utilise their reputation to market the book!

Want to ‘talk’ to the author and get his(or her) raw opinion about something? read his(or her) blog. only in the blog platform, authors are able to write with less consideration on publisher or book marketer’s preferences. and only in such platform, author and readers are able to throw out comments, questions, and discussion to each others.

As said, direct interaction with everyone, is the least we can benefit from the flat world. perhaps someone can help me to reconstruct the old chinese saying about blog (instead of book)?