Meaning of TROUBLE FOCUSING - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So in English when we say someone has "trouble focusing" it means they're having trouble
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paying attention.
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They're having trouble thinking about the thing they're supposed to be thinking about.
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The best example I can give for this is school.
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Maybe you're in school, or maybe you can remember school and think about that one teacher that
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was really boring.
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And when they were talking and you were supposed to be listening to them instead you were having
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"trouble focusing" and you were probably thinking about a whole bunch of other things that you
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weren't supposed to.
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So when you have "trouble focusing" it means that you're having trouble paying attention.
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