The mind must be motivated to go to and stay in the correct subject and context if it is to develop the focus to concentrate.  This focussed stated is ‘essential’ to learning efficiently. Without the development of the focussed state, the mind will be tempted by neurochemical addiction to pursue visual or auditory stimulus.  This is because every single emotional response is a perceptually induced neurochemical (emotional) response.  The visual stimulus that generates those short temporary emotional spikes may be news, gossip, sports, pornography or violent content.  Most people are unconscious of this phenomenon, even when it erodes their natural ability to focus.

Without focus, it’s close to impossible to learn skills.  There must be sufficient motivation to learn if the mind of the learning is sufficiently focussed to learn. Focus is not simply a component, it is an essential component.  If an individual is not highly motivated, then they are unlikely to have sufficient focus or the desire to obtain it.  Focussing on subject matter must become a life or death matter.  Working on many parts of the world is a life or death matter.  If someone doesn’t work, they don’t eat. When starvation, homelessness and vulnerability of dependent family members is motivating a person to learn, they will learn.

Emotions are fuel.  The can attract us, such is the case with attraction, sexual desire, and love.  Cravings of the body’s addiction are more powerful than fear or love.  An addict will do whatever they have to do to get their fix. They may lie, cheat, steal, sell drugs or sell their body.  This shows how powerful the cravings for specific feelings are.  This is seen as a negative thing in someone’s life an in the context of addiction it is. But it is also a highly motivating power that can drive a man to work for hours shoplifting to get enough money to feed his habit. 

If people could generate the same level of motivation as a drug addict without being addicted, they would be highly focussed.  The focus on getting enough money for a fix is absolute.  Understanding the technology of the mind, amygdala and brain is how you understand the relationship between perception and emotions.  The emotions are the fuel that drives all behaviour.  An absence of any emotional response may be described as ‘depression’.  Depression is a word that describes the observed behaviour, not its cause.  

What is needed to develop focus is sufficient motive.  This can be move towards emotions/physical feelings motive (desire/need/love) or it can be a move away from unwanted emotions /physical feelings (fear/shame/loneliness/homelessness/hunger).   A workaholic cannot stop.  An unemployed person may not be able to start.  If we do not understand the technologies of our own mind and body we will never be truly in control of our own destiny.  The development of personal sovereignty requires each individual to realise their own power.

The technology of the mind is already known and exploited through the initiatives such as marketing, news, propaganda. This is assisted by the development of new terms in the form of concepts, such as racism, welfare system, feminism, diversity, where victimhood is encouraged and reliance upon third party organisations and legislation to justify the abandonment of personal responsibility for one’s own mind and emotional programming.  

Every single emotional response without exception is a ‘perceptually induced neurochemical response’.  Perception is how we see ‘everything’ including ‘self’.  If we perceive anything and everything including self and others negatively, we write a prescription for our brain, which will immediately dispense a matching neurochemical (feeling) that we feel.  We then blame whatever we perceived in those terms to be guilty for our feelings, when in fact, it was exclusively by our own perception.

This is why it was said in Matthew 7:1–5 (KJV) “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”