Focus and attention from Nat Geo Brain games

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Rizal  PHL   |  September 23, 2013

Focus and attention from Nat Geo Brain Games

A good communication starts with FA -  Focus and Attention.  Without this, no stimuli will enter the mind of the learner, nor will learning occur.  It is sometimes startling, that we miss so much or that magicians can fool us (using the principles of focus and attention) or that pickpockets can steal our wallet face to face, at close quarters and we would not.know.

Our brain power is limited;  we use only 12 watts for our brain.  Thus we can not see many things that the same time.  Only things where we focus our attention to, can we see things clearly.

Several experiments were shown:

1.  The background of Apollo Robins were changed 3x while he was explaining a trick or showing the money;  we did not see what was going around;

2.  In a presentation where we were asked to count the number of times the performers stepped on the circle, we did not see the penguin pass by;

3.  Multi tasking really sucks.  There is no such thing as multi tasking.  Thus talking on the phone and talking about complex matters may lose your concentration focus.   Thus 250,000 accidents happen a year, and 25,000  deaths from texting or talking on the phone while driving;  A guy claiming he is a super multi tasker, in experiment by David Strayer showed he was just average

4.  Although we know what can make us lose our focus and attention we cant fight this. There are two things that affect our attention:  the decision (top down) and the sensory (bottoms up)  Apollo Robbinss was able to steal four things using diversion (lose of focus) face to face at close quater