During important games coaches and athletes talk about "keeping the focus", some athletes even have a twitter restriction for example, because coaches think that twittering will interfere with the athletes focus.
Actually what the athlete wants is to be concentrated during his match, in other words to be focussed on his task at the moment he wants to peak.
Being concentrated is realized by focussing your attention on your task and holding on to that for a certain period of time...
Every individual has his own way of creating the optimal circumstances in which he can focus best...
Athletes who are more extraverted already pick up lots of sensations from the outside world... When you add tensions before a game to it, this will make extraverted people even more extraverted... and to keep the system from overloading they want to seek rest and focus on their own feelings and thoughts.
Athletes who are more introverted prefer focussing on the outside world because tension will make introverted people even more introverted. A system overload can result in worrying. Worrying about failure for example. So they rather be distracted to keep them from turning inward and worrying to much.
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