In life, you must have had such an experience: if you want to find a small object, you obviously dangled in front of your eyes two days ago, but when you want to wait, you can't find it anymore;
Determined to concentrate on work, but in the face of the cluttered work desktop, I feel that my scalp is numb, and I can't start;
Let the child find the socks by himself, although he told him to put them somewhere in his room, but he still answered you: where is it, not found.
It turns out it's all about our attention.
"Our Stolen Attention" is written by Stefan Stuart of the Netherlands. Van der Stegerscher, a professor in the Department of Psychology, focuses on the analysis of visual systems and how attention serves us.
It turns out that Attention is like a new media program, what you pay attention to, what content you browse, it recommends you relevant videos or articles.
1. What you pay attention to is what you want to pay attention to
The article gives an example, in the film and television drama, there are many wearing gang shots, but most viewers will not notice, because people are generally concerned about the plot changes, and other innocuous wearing gangs are often ignored.
So what does it mean to turn a blind eye? It's seeing it, but not taking it seriously. It turned out that the visual system betrayed us.
The article points out that we see a lot of things every day, but only a small part of the deep processing.
It's like you take the subway every day, but rarely notice what style of coat the person next to you is wearing. If you wear a newly purchased dress today, walk into the subway confidently and feel good. At this time, you are most likely to observe the clothes of the people around you, because you have deliberately chosen the dress, then the brain will observe this.
This is because the information you have processed deeply is what you want to pay attention to.
If you want to pay attention to it, you can finally put it in your head, then isn't everyone able to forget it.
But this is not the case, because the human visual system has limited processing power, which is why everyone knows that safe driving is very important, but traffic accidents still happen.
In order to reduce safety accidents, the design of unmanned autonomous driving was born, because machines are more efficient than humans, and they do not waste computing time.
So how can we make the visual system more efficient at work and in life?
The answer is to make goals, plan, and keep improving.
Because those who have lofty ideals can succeed, those goals that you continue to strengthen are what you want, and the continuous search of your visual system in life often inadvertently gives you inspiration, bringing you the harvest of "mountains and rivers are doubtful, willows and flowers are bright and another village".
Sometimes it's not enough to have plans and goals, but the role of the environment is also very important.
2. Different backgrounds set off different colors
People with driving experience know that driving in the big sun, when the sun is shining head-on, the eyes look at the traffic lights very unclear, and it is easy to produce a feeling of vertigo.
The article points out that color has the characteristics of constancy, that is, under different lights, the color of the object will be different.
Therefore, in different sunshine conditions, our visual effect will be slightly different, causing driving discomfort.
This means that the same object, in different background colors, our visual effects will be different.
The video of Li Ziqi, a net red blogger, is deeply loved by everyone, and the idyllic life in the video is very beautiful. Have you found that Li Ziqi's family has a vegetable bed vase, each season will be inserted with different flowers, very beautiful, in fact, because the background of the lens is a plain cement wall, the plain background is more set off the delicate and moving flowers, even if a dog tail grass is inserted, it also has a different flavor. But if the camera shoots flowers and points to the flowers and trees next to it, the effect is not so good.
There is no background color everywhere in life, how can we avoid visual fatigue, so as to improve work efficiency.
It turns out that people who think deeply like to stare at the big white wall, and the white wall makes people more focused. Of course, whether the field of vision is clean and tidy will also affect the ability to think.
If you want to work more efficiently, first clean up the workstation neat and comfortable, the eyes are beginning to reject things, the heart will not like.
3. Everything in sight is the direction of the heart
People want the beauty they want to do and see as far as they want. But in fact, there is a sequence of the two.
The article states that what you will find depends largely on what you want to find.
When you don't want something, even if it's right in front of your eyes, you can't find it.
It's like when you rummaged through boxes and cabinets to find the clothes you had seen two days ago, but you couldn't always find them. Because you didn't pay attention to the dress two days ago, you couldn't identify where it was actually stored.
It turns out that after the attention is deeply processed, there is also a process of focusing information.
This is like the spotlight of a stage play, chasing the actors all the time, so that the audience has a better viewing effect.
Another function of the spotlight is to narrow the "effective field of view" and let the audience's attention focus on the actors.
Speaking of effective vision, the article mentions that the effective field of view for children and the elderly is smaller than that of adults.
Therefore, we should be more patient with the elderly and children, after all, they do not have a wide field of vision as ours.
But it is often said that as long as you climb high and look far, whether the effective field of vision is wide or narrow, I believe that as long as you climb the ladder of knowledge, you can also look into the distance.
To summarize:
1. What you pay attention to is what you want to pay attention to. If you want to improve your visual depth processing ability, you need to constantly summarize and improve.
2. Different background colors, showing different colors. Find a background color that makes you comfortable, reduces visual fatigue, and increases efficiency.
3. If you want to see everything you want to be the direction of the heart, in addition to visual depth processing, you also need to focus on information and broaden your field of vision.
If you understand the "underlying logic of attention", I believe that you can make your eyes more transparent and help you see through the thousands of people in this world. Join along with this journey of discovery who stole your attention.