By: Yuna
In today’s class, we learned that people can’t concentrate on many things at once, and they can’t find out that things in the environment have changed. Because they can’t focus on many things at once. In class, Dr.Lee showed us some videos. One of the videos is about a magician(?) talking about how people can’t concentrate on many things at once, and then he gives an example in the video. In the video, he invited an audience member to interact with him and help him complete this example. He talks with this audience, and then when he talks he takes things that belong to the audience, but the audience can't even feel or didn’t know that the magician took his things. The magician makes the audience focus on the coin that he said and talk to the audience. While interacting with the audience, he diverts the audience's attention so that he doesn't realize he's taking something from him, or putting a coin on his shoulder. When you are focused on something, you can’t really find out that something happened beside you or on you. Your mind will just ignore the things that happened. If we can use this point well, when we talk to other people, and you want them to ignore the point that you want them to ignore, or focus on the things that you want them to focus on, it will be pretty easy. If I want to direct people’s attention way of what they are doing, I can talk about the things that are related to the level of the needs hierarchy that they think about the most. For example, the person that I am talking to wants to be thin, because they want to be famous. This is the love belonging and the esteem in the Maslow's Hierarchy. If I want to take their attention, I can give them some new input about love belonging or esteem needs, because this is the things that they care about, so their attention will be easy to put on a new place.