Attentiveness and observation are important components of the life of every person. But sometimes we meet people or we ourselves are those who are simply not used to being attentive since childhood. Usually such people look around, but do not notice anything. It's all about the human habit of observing.
General concepts
If you approach someone from the family and ask them to describe in detail what the garage looks like in the country, you will be surprised that people simply do not pay attention to some seemingly obvious details. Someone will speak out against and say that paying attention to details is memory overload and cluttering the brain with unnecessary information. On the one hand, this is true, but on the other hand, it is a good habit. Firstly, such skills will allow you to quickly capture the essence and make an analysis, and secondly, it can be an excellent help in resolving adverse situations. So such character traits or personality traits asattention and observation are more important than ever.
What is mindfulness and attention?
First of all, attentiveness implies a certain attitude towards people around. This is not only the ability to observe, but also to respond in time to the state of others, to be sensitive and understanding. Mindfulness seriously affects cognitive activity, intellect and mind, and also positively affects the results of work. But the concept of "attention" already has a different character - it is a selective focus on a specific object and full concentration on it.
What is observation
First of all, this concept reflects a person's ability to pay attention to the essential properties and details of both people and phenomena and objects. And if many people think that the ability to notice even the smallest details is a useless skill, then they are deeply mistaken, because observation is important both in the professional field and in life in general.
Why develop observation?
Such a skill is essential in life. Psychologists identify specific reasons why each person should pay attention to the development of observation:
- First of all, observation makes it possible to much better understand everything that is happening around, what is hidden from the eyes of ordinary people. The ability to see similarities in different and differences in the same is a real art.
- The development of observation helps to reveal the potential, the essence of another person, and also allows you to foresee his future actions.
- A high level of observation allows people to quickly assess the situation and make an informed decision.
- Observation is a source of inspiration, it is new ideas, it is the ability to see something new in familiar things. Many great scientists, artists, writers, inventors created precisely because they were able to see something new and bright in dullness.
Today, observation is the basis of most professions. Keeping abreast of events and not getting lost in the gray mass is the task of modern society.
How to develop observation skills?
The level of observation is directly proportional to the level of memory development. So how do you learn to see for real? It is worth noting that in order to develop a skill, one should not only remember what he saw or heard in detail, but also pass the information received through himself. Never close yourself from new knowledge, be more receptive, in the process of observation, do not forget to think and analyze so that the information received remains, and does not disappear with your thoughts. For example, K. G. Paustovsky, the great Russian writer, believed that the ability to "see" is based on the sensitivity of the visual analyzer. He wrote that observation is a business that will come with time. And you can train yourself with the following exercise. The Russian writer offered people every day for a monthlook at everything around with the idea that right now you will need to draw in detail what you see. Look at people like that, at nature, at objects and phenomena around you. You will be surprised how much you have not noticed before, and after a while it will become a habit.
Development exercises
In addition to the Paustovsky exercise, there are two more simple, but very effective ways to develop a person's observation skills:
- Exercise 1 is the simplest and most effective. Its essence lies in the ability to see ordinary things. Take some object, the first thing that comes to hand. It can be a phone, a book, an iron, a cup, and put it in front of you. Calmly, and most importantly - very carefully, examine the thing, try to remember it as accurately as possible. Now you should close your eyes and mentally recreate the image exactly with all the details. Then you can open your eyes again, look at the object and understand what was missing in your mental representations. And then we close our eyes again in order to improve the image that has developed in the head.
- When you cope with the first exercise with a bang, you can move on to the second. Now you need to transfer the mental image to paper. And it does not matter at all whether you draw like Salvador Dali or like a five-year-old child. Just picture what you imagine in your head. When the item is drawn, look at it live and add the missing details
These simple exercises will help develop such a skill as a person's observation. Alreadyafter a few weeks of classes, the result will be noticeable, which will please you. Now you will not look at the world as before, now even in the most ordinary things you can see something unknown.
