FOCUS Index

Your senses work automatically, but your higher conceptual processes don't. Ayn Rand's idea of focus, as applied to your mind means that you are alert, attentive and actively trying to solve problems, achieve goals, grasp reality.

Your decision to focus is the most fundamental demonstration of your free will. You can choose at any moment to fully focus, half focus, selectively evade focus, or drift completely.

How focused you are is a measure of your basic commitment to reality.

Only by focusing can you consider the alternatives you have and choose between them with intelligence.