By Yiler Huang
This is a reaction to Different Individual Needs and Attention Placement we learned in a class.
In the class today, we learned that people tend to focus more on the things they think are important. This could result an attention blindness that makes them not to focus on other things. Taking myself as an example. I am saving money for a guitar recently, and it is very easy to draw my attention with things related to guitar or money. Therefore, when we are trying to communicating with people, it is good to know somehing about them so we could have a better idea of how we can package our message that is easy for them to understand and focus on. This could also be used on influencing people's thoughts. From the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, we learned that different people might have different kinds of needs. If we know what people think they need, we could possibly convince them to do something buy telling them benefits that fits their needs. An example would be that advertising companies often advertise their products differently depending on the target clients.