The Baal HaTanya answers this question himself. He says that a person should not be discouraged if מחשבות זרות plague a person during Tefillah. Rather, as soon as he realizes, he should refocus, even if it happens a hundred times. This is also the מדרגה of a beinoni because it’s a form of מלחמה with your yetzer hara. As long as you’re משיח דעת and you’re not חושב in these מחשבות on purpose knowingly, you’d still be at the madreiga of a beinoni.
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