Mother is God

Attention may be involuntary or passive, and voluntary or active. Involuntary attention is given without or even against will. Voluntary attention results from a direct act of the will. If the subject attended to is not a barren one, voluntary attention passes into interested attention. As Wright points out, in study voluntary attention and interested attention are both indispensable: “Interest is the driving power, the engine; voluntary attention is the streering wheel.” He adds aptly: “Thus concentration, in the sense of absorption in the subject one is studying to the point of blindness and deafness to all else is not the result of the strength of will, but of strength of interest, the strength of some desire for a particular piece of knowledge.”