Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Mar. 2011
Focus implies the action of directing the interest or efforts that are within reach, towards a center or focus, with the mission of achieving certain results or objectives.
Direct attention, interest and efforts towards a focus with the mission of achieving a proposed objective
By focus we understand that place in which some question or thing is concentrated and from which it spreads or exerts influence in a more extended field.
For example, many of the world's most important and influential art movements focused on a particular place, a territory given geographic location, in which they settled, became recognized, were accepted and then from there they would spread.
This has happened with the most important movements and trends in the world, for example, the Renaissance It was born in Italy and from there it would spread to the rest of Europe and the other continents.
That is, the focus would be something like the origin or origin of said movement.
Concept applications
For example, if my goal for this year is to receive myself in the degree I am taking, then I will have to direct all my will and Energy towards it, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve it.
Meanwhile, that absolute conviction and focused desire on what I want to achieve, in this case graduating, will imply doing everything I can. facilitate it but you will also need to put aside and aside from the path all those issues that distract or make it impossible to achieve the objective.
That is, I will have to establish a study schedule, so many hours in the morning, so many in the morning. late, without saturating myself, giving space to rest as well, because without it it will be difficult to achieve maximum concentration.
I will also have to choose priorities among the subjects to be taken, probably leaving the most complex for the end so you have more study time and prepare the easier ones in the first finished. And among the issues to put aside, all those that involve a distraction to achieve the proposed objective come into play, for For example, going to bed late every night, not being organized with studying, for example studying a few days a week, among others issues.
On the other hand, the focus may be on maximizing the management of a company, then, if there were This task, the ideal will be to establish a concrete control over all the departments that make up the company, analyzing the functioning of each one and, if necessary, impose the pertinent corrective measures to repair deviations and maximize the performance of the company, which is where the focus is placed.
Converge a beam of light
On the other hand, focusing also refers to the action of converging a beam of light or particles.
Narration: angle from which events are narrated
And we also find a reference for the word in the field of narration where it is used to designate the angle or focus from which certain events are narrated.
The narration consists of a series of real or imaginary events that occur in a space and during a certain time and that are plausible to be told by a narrator.
Thus, the narrator will have a different participation in the events and varying degrees of knowledge about them.
Three kinds of targeting can be distinguished in this sense ...
The internal one, which places the narrative within a character, the narrator assuming the roles of character and narrator, that is, they are the same person.
On the outside, the narrator is located outside the events and describes only what he hears and that he sees, he does not even know the events. feelings nor what the characters think. He is a witness, he acts like one.
And the spectator, which has an intimate association with the movie theater and that is characterized because the narrator provides information to the viewer, an info that the characters do not know.
This type of targeting is the trigger for suspense in fictional stories.
With an example we will see it more clearly, a character has his back turned and does not appreciate that the aggressor is approaching him with a weapon, but of course, the viewer is seeing him ...