Unspoken.

 The notion of focus is seldom more than a catch phrase for many, even higher ranking Instructors.

What does it mean to be deeply focused? Does it mean to be so immersed in one thing that all other things aside are ignored or unnoticed?

Can Focus, Awareness, and Adaptibility go hand-in-hand? 

We may be getting too hung up on words and their respective concepts if we answer in the negative and have all manner of well thought out reasoning why this is so.

Sometimes our intelligence can make us stupid, ignorant, and maladaptive.

We can say Focus means giving full attention to a single thing to the exclusion of all other things,yet we can also say that Focus is simply being present, fully attentive, and fully aware, encompassing everything.

It really isn't that complex, it really doesn't need hours of contemplation followed by hours of deep philosophical discussion... Just be fully present, be fully aware, do things with intention... To put your whole self in everything you do without breaking that focus.

How you do anything is how you do everything... An old saying coined by a Stoic, or possibly comendeered by him, but no less true.

Whether we call it Focus, or something else it does not really matter.

People place too much emphasis on words, definitions, concepts... Not enough emphasis on actually doi g anything.

Words like Karate and Ti, which give rise to specific ideas, yet are nothing really special... Just words... The meaning is in silence, in the action, unspoken.