Let’s take the example of a philosophical situation like ‘ detachment’ . Detachment is a condition of mind that prevents botheration from the mundane, a condition whereby the individual remains oblivious of people and objects around, his or her focus being the process of self realisation through study, meditation and note taking. The trauma that an individual goes through in physical social relationships, in expectations of results , in adjustment and adaptation processes , that he or she decides that enough is enough and that the way ahead is to bring a change in oneself, where the individual is able to deal life’s varying situations all by himself or herself. A concentrated effort is needed in shaping one to that state of being beyond misery . The art of dealing with such a situation will need steps and sequences to be followed that get stored in the memory. 

This type of a concentration leads the individual to success. 

The same can be applied to students too who aspire to become professionals,  unless a concentrated effort is not made , the individual cannot attain the course of his or her choice. 

The mind can waver, can wander especially in the digital world, too much is happening at the same time. Attention is compulsively made to shift from one zone to the other, one stimuli to the other, as a result concentration gets affected. 

Therefore a deliberate behavioural attempt needs to be made towards retaining the attention on the original object of study, eg one begins to read a book, book on say birds , book is the object and birds the subject, suddenly your attention is caught on something else , thoughts have thus wandered from one stimuli to the other, before a total assimilation of the prior. 

Another eg, the music lesson focused on a particular Raag, while browsing some other Raag catches one’s attention, the grip over the original ie the first lesson is lost. One needs to work patiently enough to improve upon the attention span and thereby the retention. 

Success is definite to those who can concentrate and stay on that level for a long time to come. The line of focus on the object concerned is important, till the task is accomplished. One wishes to write a book, that book needs to be written with enough references, citations, reviews and modifications and thus a constant mind will be able to produce that perfect a book. Check on the extent of wavering and wandering. 

Curtail it immediately. Or else the subconscious would be a store house of jumbled up, complex stimuli where not all would be useful, instead they would be working in the negative as intervening variables. The storehouse of the subconscious is as important as the conscious . Whatever we see and hear is stored in the subconscious that makes 90 percent of the intellect , the force of which acts ion the conscious. Let’s then build on the subconscious through our efforts on the conscious self and conscious concentrated mind.