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Concentration |
Attentiveness |
Heedfulness |
Perhaps as much as 50% of your success at bridge depends on your ability to keep your mind on the game. If you are not paying attention at all time, crucial details may escape your notice, like how many trump cards have been played.
Most of the mistakes an expert player makes are lapses in concentration, which he knows to avoid. The difference between the expert and the average player, however, is that the expert keeps his avoidable errors to a minimum.
There have been many published articles about the element of concentration, which is an action of the mind itself. How it works, functions, or becomes active is unknown. However, additional explanations might assist the bridge player and are included.
Concentration is the ability to sustain attention and to focus on particular target stimuli. Concentration is an important skill for most sports activities. It can be learned and improved by specific training. Athletes and players of many physical sport activities, for instance, play distraction games in which one person has to try to concentrate on performing a skill while others try to distract him or her.
A wide range of factors can affect concentration. Eating a heavy meal, very high levels of noise, and anxiety can reduce concentration. Scientists have determined that the morning hours are, at least for the majority of people, the best time to concentrate on complex tasks which rely on memory. It is difficult to sustain concentration at any time on tasks that are too simple, too complicated, or too repetitive. It is also difficult to sustain concentration over a longer, extended period of time.
Many well-known persons have commented on this feature of the mind and a few, more or less famous quotes are listed below, which represent their opinion about concentration, about attentiveness, about heedfulness.
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. - Andre Agass, world tennis player.i
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win. - Amy Alcott, professional golfer.
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket ... - Andrew Carnegie, businessman.
Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration. - Andrew Carnegie, founder of Carnegie Hall in New York, New York, United States.
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking. - Robert Cialdini, Professor of Psychology and author.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time ... - Charles Dickens, author.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. - Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Chrysler Corporation.
Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point. - Orison Swett Marden, author.
These suggestions and guidelines have been authored by bridge experts along the way to assist the novice, the student, the learner of the game of bridge. They pass this advice on to them by contributing their wealth of knowledge.
Do not spend too much time on the easy hands. Save your mental energy by relaxing Do not follow the dummy play like Mr. Eagle
Eye. Do not tire yourself out trying to solve
a problem If a card is played or discarded unexpectedly, |
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