Crossword-Solution: REFOCUSES 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

If a person cannot swim across the river, he must take the bridge. He is not afraid of the water or worried that he may drown. But he takes the bridge out of necessity. It is a fact. To fear or worry over necessities (over facts), stills the mind. The stagnant mind only focuses and refocuses on a single point, without peripheral vision — it ponders danger, but it does not prepare for it. The brave man is not bound immobile with caution or lost scouting the fog of hazard calcu…

... we spend a lot of time defining behavior by the negative "that was inappropriate." These commands are vague and inefficient... Telling students what to do in a way that is specific, concrete, sequential and observable refocuses us on teaching.

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.