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Focused Thinking

personality or a fragmented mind. This kind of thinking makes
one an integrated personality. And there is no doubt that an
integrated personality is the most important aspect of a man or
a woman.
Focused thinking saves you from mental confusion. It helps
you to concentrate all your efforts on a single point, thus saving
you from all kinds of distraction and from developing what is
called a ‘grasshopper’ mind.

When a believer adopts the belief that God is
only one, he develops the habit of concentration.
Concentration is the ability to direct all your effort
and attention to a single point.

Focused thinking develops concentration, enabling you to
differentiate between relevance and irrelevance, between the real
and the relative. It leads to concerted effort, ensuring that one will
not waste one’s time and energy. Being focused in one’s thinking
means that one’s journey will follow a single track without any
kind of deviation. One who engages in this kind of thinking is
bound to achieve great success.

It is said that the father of modern science, Isaac Newton, had
the special capacity to think in this focused way. Many other great
thinkers and super achievers had this ability. Indeed, there is no
example in history of anyone achieving great success without
having this gift. Focused thinking is the greatest quality in both
men and women.
When a believer develops focused thinking in terms of his
religious belief, it is not possible to confine it to religious matters.
Naturally, it widens its sphere to cover all other aspects of the
functioning of his mind. So, believers in the one God naturally
become believers in a single target. In terms of religion, this is
to believe in the oneness of God and, in terms of non-religious

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