Think about this for a brief moment. As you sit there and read this document, a stream of information is coming in through your sense of sight. But you are also hearing different sounds, feeling physical feelings like the pressure of your chair touching your buttocks and back, the feeling of the clothing on your body, and the air temperature and movement on your skin. You are also in receipt of information by way of your nose in the form of aromas. And of course, you're taking in data in the form of the mixture of tastes on your lips and in your mouth.
And how about the emotional thoughts that you are currently experiencing? That's also data that you're processing at the moment. We exist in an information intensive world. Thanks to the Internet, almost no matter what a person might want to know is only a few clicks of a mouse away.
I recently read an article that said that even in a tranquil and peaceful atmosphere, we are bombarded by sixty thousand stimuli per second. And that's occurring sixty seconds out of each minute, and sixty minutes out of each hour. And it goes on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, week in and week out for our entire life.
And that is a big part of the problem. We are all being subjected to "information overload." And that makes it very difficult to memorize all of the data that we want to memorize or need to remember.
Very often, while we are reading, we discover that our eyes have been traversing the information on the page, while our conscious mind has been off somewhere else on a tangent. When we get to the bottom of the page, we realize that our eyes have seen the words, but we have no conscious recall of what we have just read. That's because our mind has been somewhere else mulling over a problem, or working out a project.
Today it's common to hear even young people say things like, "I'm having a senior moment." No matter what your age, and whether you are a student, part of the labor, or a retired person, I'm sure that you understand what I'm talking about. In our wild world it is very often very difficult to focus your concentration.
SO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SCENARIOS IS YOUR PROBLEM?
A. Your mind begins to meander as you study, and then all of a sudden you appreciate that you do not have the slightest idea what you've read.
B. When you are in a social environment and new friends are introduced to you, you find that you forget their names as quickly as you hear them.
C. You remember that you have a chore to do in another room; however, as soon as you start towards the other room you totally forget what that task is.
D. You can stay alert and take in new information. But when you take a test, "Test Anxiety" overcomes you and triggers a mental block, and you are not able to call to mind the answers to the questions on the test that you really know.
Think about this for a brief moment. As you sit there and read this document, a stream of information is coming in through your sense of sight. But you are also hearing different sounds, feeling physical feelings like the pressure of your chair touching your buttocks and back, the feeling of the clothing on your body, and the air temperature and movement on your skin. You are also in receipt of information by way of your nose in the form of aromas. And of course, you're taking in data in the form of the mixture of tastes on your lips and in your mouth.
And how about the emotional thoughts that you are currently experiencing? That's also data that you're processing at the moment. We exist in an information intensive world. Thanks to the Internet, almost no matter what a person might want to know is only a few clicks of a mouse away.
I recently read an article that said that even in a tranquil and peaceful atmosphere, we are bombarded by sixty thousand stimuli per second. And that's occurring sixty seconds out of each minute, and sixty minutes out of each hour. And it goes on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, week in and week out for our entire life.
And that is a big part of the problem. We are all being subjected to "information overload." And that makes it very difficult to memorize all of the data that we want to memorize or need to remember.
Very often, while we are reading, we discover that our eyes have been traversing the information on the page, while our conscious mind has been off somewhere else on a tangent. When we get to the bottom of the page, we realize that our eyes have seen the words, but we have no conscious recall of what we have just read. That's because our mind has been somewhere else mulling over a problem, or working out a project.
Today it's common to hear even young people say things like, "I'm having a senior moment." No matter what your age, and whether you are a student, part of the labor, or a retired person, I'm sure that you understand what I'm talking about. In our wild world it is very often very difficult to focus your concentration.
SO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SCENARIOS IS YOUR PROBLEM?
A. Your mind begins to meander as you study, and then all of a sudden you appreciate that you do not have the slightest idea what you've read.
B. When you are in a social environment and new friends are introduced to you, you find that you forget their names as quickly as you hear them.
C. You remember that you have a chore to do in another room; however, as soon as you start towards the other room you totally forget what that task is.
D. You can stay alert and take in new information. But when you take a test, "Test Anxiety" overcomes you and triggers a mental block, and you are not able to call to mind the answers to the questions on the test that you really know.
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