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The third and last section of the eightfold path is mental development. In mental development there are three steps. the first is right effort, second right mindfulness, and third right concentration.First right effort can be seen as a prerequisite for the other principles of the path. Without effort, which is in itself an act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided effort distracts the mind from its task, and confusion will be the consequence. Second the right mindfulness is the controlled and perfected faculty of cognition. Lastly, the eighth principle of the path, right concentration, refers to the development of a mental force that occurs in natural consciousness, concentration in this context is described as one pointedness of mind, meaning a state where all mental faculties are unified.