Nowadays, every time when you open your eyes, you’re just falling into the ocean of information. An information storm is caused by the Internet and it has been filled in all your electronic windows and screens, penetrating into ceiling of your life, absorbing your spiritual energy and breaking your time into pieces.
Have you ever put it a priority of answering emails in your working list every day?
Have you ever considered articles in your friends circle as your daily reading list?
Have you ever considered the notice of ringing to switch some of your work items?
It seems that you’re trying your best to pursue more beautiful things but your experience is becoming more shallow and thinner. Also you’re more easy to suffer from low efficiency, boring and anxiety because your loss of the ability of focus.
Cognitive psychologists have examined that focus is a psychological process of concentrating your consciousness. As the information we can deal with each day is just limited and we should selectively choose to focus on information of a certain field but ignoring information in other fields.
Focus may have become one of the most scarcest psychological resources in this era. Professors in University of California Irvine have found that employees in enterprises may be interrupted once within each 3 minutes and 5 seconds. And they need about 25 minutes to recover into the working state again.
The same problem is even more obvious in children and adolescents because many children are confirmed to suffer from ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). They have much difficulty in study, worrying lots of parents.
Energy in our brain is limited and the information we can deal with in our life time is also limited. So we need focus to help us select out what we should really care about. Focus is just like a doorkeeper, helping us to select out the content to be in our consciousness and get rid of those of no importance.
Actually the accumulation of all the content we focus on largely have decided who we are and how we are now living, and even our life value.
According to active psychology, brain of human beings can not focus on the positive side and negative side at the same time. We can choose one side, whether to be pessimistic, or to be optimistic.
Then if we know how to use our own focus, we can choose to see more beauties in reality, including our beautiful memory of the past, to feel what is good at the current moment and to imagine a beautiful future.
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