Concentration and memory difficulties

The concentration so important to learning and storing what you learn is not a depot that we have stored somewhere in our body as a more or less large supply. Rather, the concentration is a condition. The state of undisturbed, directed attention to the things we want to address. This can e.g. a text that we want to read, or a conversation we want to follow, or maybe a math task to be solved. Whatever we want to "concentrate" and thus do economically and effectively for our perception system, depends on us being able to devote ourselves undisturbed to the necessary things without distraction. Here, our perception of hearing plays a crucial role. Did you know that our ears need to filter out more information than pass it on? In a meeting, at school or in the restaurant to pursue a conversation, it is not important but rather disturbing, what the neighbor is talking about.

Our ears have to filter that out. The ability to listen, unlike hearing, enables us to focus on one thing. Then, as a rule, we can also remember well what information we have received, that is, create memory. Even if we have retired to read a book, the ticking of the wall clock or the chuckle of the heater at non-intact filter performance of the sense of hearing can distract us so much that we do not know at the end of the read page, what exactly we have read , So we have to start all over again. This is exhausting and tiring and may, for example, be the reason why children do not enjoy doing their homework. With the inability to listen, effective memory formation is difficult to impossible. We only remember things as well as we could save them. In that sense it is important to hear well, but more importantly, to be able to listen well.

Concentration and memory

Concentration and memory difficulties

 

Concentration is so important to learning, and concentrating to learn is not a simple case of just remembering what you See/Read or Hear. Rather, concentration is a condition. The state of undisturbed, directed attention to the things we want to address. This can be for instance a text that we want to read, or a conversation we want to follow, or maybe a math task to be solved. Whenever we want to "concentrate" and thus do economically and effectively for our perception system, depends on us being able to devote ourselves undisturbed to the necessary things without distraction. Here, our perception of hearing plays a crucial role. Did you know that our ears need to filter out more information than pass it on? In a meeting, at school or in the restaurant to pursue a conversation, what the person near you is talking about it is not important to you but can be rather disturbing.

Our ears have to filter that out. The ability to listen, unlike hearing, enables us to focus on one thing. Then, as a rule, we can also remember efficiently what information we have received, that is, create memory. Even if we have retired to read a book, the ticking of the wall clock or the burble of a heater can distract us so much that we do not know at the end of the page, what exactly we have read. So we have to start all over again. This is exhausting and tiring and may, for example, be the reason why children do not enjoy doing their homework. With the inability to listen, effective memory formation is difficult to impossible. We only remember things as well as we could save them. In that sense it is important to hear well, but more importantly, to be able to listen well.