======Attention and Inattention Blindness======
Made by: [[zoey-lin|Zoey]]
Today I learned about attention and inattention blindness. Attention blindness is mean when people are paying attention to one thing already it is hard for people to pay attention to another item or people cannot even know something is happening. For example, during break time I was watching youtube, and at the same time, Dr.Lee was telling me to go to the meeting room at 1:10. when I'm focusing on YouTube I can not listen carefully to what Dr.Lee says. So it makes a lot of problems like I hear Dr. Lee says something but I do not know the content of what he says or I just forget Dr. Lee was talking to me. How to effectively solve attention blindness, as we know people can not pay attention to two things together unless they want both to be incomplete. Like when Dr.Lee is talking to me I can stop the video that I'm watching and listen carefully to what Dr.Lee says.
If I want to communicate well with people and let them remember it, what I can do is says something that is good for them first and says something that they can change or get better with. It's just like, one day Tracy is wearing her new clothes and I want to give her some feedback. Bad feedback is “You can change your pants because it's ugly but others look good” When she heard this, She already put attention to the first sentence “You can change your pants because [it's ugly]" so she might not have heard my next compliment. Good feedback is “You look good today but I think your pants could be changed because it is ugly”, she'll be happy when she hears my compliments. Afterward, She wants to make herself better, she will be more receptive to my opinions.