How to Sharpen Your Powers of Observation
Meditate., Practice Logic Constantly., Practice Memory Recollection., Experience New Things., Learn Through Trial and Error., Test your observation and recollection skill.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Meditate.
Mindful Meditation is the act of clearing your mind to pay attention to the moment and the world around you.
Sitting Meditation is the best way to begin, close you eyes, and focus on your breathing.
The idea isn’t to get lost in your thoughts or the world around you.
Keep your focused attention on your breath, while practicing awareness of these things, kind of like being a tape recorder.
Practicing this for thirty minutes a day, you will begin training your mind to pay attention to the environment, and you will hone your attention and focus, two highly important skills needed for observation.
Researchers of Meditation have discovered that they grey matter housing Attention, Focus, and Sensory Processing thicken and grow in size through regular Meditation.
They have also discovered that Meditation enhances the Brain’s activity levels, similar to shifting a car into a higher gear.
This means faster processing, better memory, focus, attention, etc.
All skills that are important for observation. -
Step 2: Practice Logic Constantly.
Granted that Logic and Observation are separate, they blend perfectly.
Practicing Logic Puzzles, Rubik Cubes, Cryptograms, etc. will aid in honing your Powers of Logical Reasoning.
Sites that offer Brain Games often offer Logic Exercises, helping to improve your own Logic.
Through daily practice, the art of logic will become natural and easy for you, allowing you to extract information not presented to the naked eye.
This can lead a person to being steps ahead of the game. , Memory is another tool that observers use in observation, either that, they observe in hopes of retaining information.
By recalling the days events after the night and thinking about them, you exercise four parts of your brain.
That involved in Memory, Working Memory, Reasoning, and Analyzing.
Many of the same skills that are used when effectively observing.
For further improvement, practice long-term memory once a week by picking either a date or event, then recall and think about as many details as possible.
This exercises the same skills in a much more dramatic manner and will help enhance the functionality of your Frontal Lobes.
Thinking about things in such a way also helps one to be able to extract more knowledge from their experiences, gain a more mature and rational perspective on the past and maybe even resolves any confusion about the past.
The same skills can be applied to forethought.
Helping one to stay alert of what is happening in their lives and giving an idea of what is to come. , Experiencing new things helps to improve observation by engaging your attention.
Taking it further and consciously remembering to pay close attention to the details of the environment and experience will help enrich the experience, increase knowledge, and using your powers of observation is the best way to improve the skills involved. , Consistently check back to figure out what you really do observe, and then figure out new details that you should check when observing that will improve your skills.
If you consistently forget to pay close attention, then try to find some ways to help you remind yourself.
The skill takes much training, and with that training, you will find them becoming more automatic and easier to use. , Take a pen and paper and walk out of the room.
Now, write everything down which is in the room.
Any object, don't leave anything out.
Everything you can remember.
You'll find out that you can not remember as many objects as you thought you can.
Remember: you may not look at the room while writing down the objects.
Go back to the room and look at everything you missed, everything you saw countless time but didn't observe.
Now observe everything closely.
Repeat the test and you will see that the list is now longer.
Keep doing this everyday and you will become better.
You can do this exercise with anything:
Peoples faces, peoples clothes, objects, dogs, basically:
Anything with a lot of detail. -
Step 3: Practice Memory Recollection.
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Step 4: Experience New Things.
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Step 5: Learn Through Trial and Error.
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Step 6: Test your observation and recollection skill.
Detailed Guide
Mindful Meditation is the act of clearing your mind to pay attention to the moment and the world around you.
Sitting Meditation is the best way to begin, close you eyes, and focus on your breathing.
The idea isn’t to get lost in your thoughts or the world around you.
Keep your focused attention on your breath, while practicing awareness of these things, kind of like being a tape recorder.
Practicing this for thirty minutes a day, you will begin training your mind to pay attention to the environment, and you will hone your attention and focus, two highly important skills needed for observation.
Researchers of Meditation have discovered that they grey matter housing Attention, Focus, and Sensory Processing thicken and grow in size through regular Meditation.
They have also discovered that Meditation enhances the Brain’s activity levels, similar to shifting a car into a higher gear.
This means faster processing, better memory, focus, attention, etc.
All skills that are important for observation.
Granted that Logic and Observation are separate, they blend perfectly.
Practicing Logic Puzzles, Rubik Cubes, Cryptograms, etc. will aid in honing your Powers of Logical Reasoning.
Sites that offer Brain Games often offer Logic Exercises, helping to improve your own Logic.
Through daily practice, the art of logic will become natural and easy for you, allowing you to extract information not presented to the naked eye.
This can lead a person to being steps ahead of the game. , Memory is another tool that observers use in observation, either that, they observe in hopes of retaining information.
By recalling the days events after the night and thinking about them, you exercise four parts of your brain.
That involved in Memory, Working Memory, Reasoning, and Analyzing.
Many of the same skills that are used when effectively observing.
For further improvement, practice long-term memory once a week by picking either a date or event, then recall and think about as many details as possible.
This exercises the same skills in a much more dramatic manner and will help enhance the functionality of your Frontal Lobes.
Thinking about things in such a way also helps one to be able to extract more knowledge from their experiences, gain a more mature and rational perspective on the past and maybe even resolves any confusion about the past.
The same skills can be applied to forethought.
Helping one to stay alert of what is happening in their lives and giving an idea of what is to come. , Experiencing new things helps to improve observation by engaging your attention.
Taking it further and consciously remembering to pay close attention to the details of the environment and experience will help enrich the experience, increase knowledge, and using your powers of observation is the best way to improve the skills involved. , Consistently check back to figure out what you really do observe, and then figure out new details that you should check when observing that will improve your skills.
If you consistently forget to pay close attention, then try to find some ways to help you remind yourself.
The skill takes much training, and with that training, you will find them becoming more automatic and easier to use. , Take a pen and paper and walk out of the room.
Now, write everything down which is in the room.
Any object, don't leave anything out.
Everything you can remember.
You'll find out that you can not remember as many objects as you thought you can.
Remember: you may not look at the room while writing down the objects.
Go back to the room and look at everything you missed, everything you saw countless time but didn't observe.
Now observe everything closely.
Repeat the test and you will see that the list is now longer.
Keep doing this everyday and you will become better.
You can do this exercise with anything:
Peoples faces, peoples clothes, objects, dogs, basically:
Anything with a lot of detail.
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