Focus is where your attention is, and too often our attention is on the immediate, rather than our desired end result.
We enter conversations and are agenda driven, thinking of our desired end result.
The end result: our Readers' Choice List, a compilation for our BV readers, by our BV readers, comprised of books mostly written by black playwrights, scholars, activists, novelists and poets, including J. California Cooper, Sister Souljah, Steve Biko and James McBride, among others.
Quite apart from the mindfulness colouring books, which join adult ball ponds and Shoreditch's cereal café as evidence of our slow slide back into our mothers' wombs, the end result of this paid-for passivity is surely a world where, rather than noisily trying to change the world, we are all content within our own heads, earbuds in, credit cards aching, eyes closed.
Our species is the end result of billions of years of evolution, natural selection producing – around 5m years ago – our hominid line.
Here, our interest was the end result of the naming process for better or worse.
A well-told, believable story, whatever the theme may be that is appealing to our readers, is the end result we all hope to achieve.
Ian Traynor, our Europe editor, reckons the end result is likely to be a left-right coalition.
"Well," says Whannell, "I guess the end result exceeded our goal.
