What struck me as an interesting phenomenon I stumbled into last week was how an untouched tupperware of pineapple tarts is almost empty right now as I'm typing this. That poor tupperware has been resting on the television cabinet for 2 months. All I had to do was to bring it into the study room so I could start munching on some while watching my Korean drama and then leave it there next to the computer. And for the next few days, voilà, almost half of tarts were eaten. Of course, by everyone else at home. All I had to do, was to make it more reachable, more visible. And these pineapple tarts were so good, soft tart shells and really sweet fillings.
There has been claims of 'out of sight, out of mind' phenomenon which I cannot completely attest to because there cannot be things we can completely get rid of despite the physical absence. Things such as memories. But on the flipside, we can make things more salient if we push them enough to exist within our attention span. And the mind can slowly register and then we start to realize how abandoned these things have been.
There are many things which are chucked aside and hidden which we may have forgotten. So before some important things are forever forgotten, we need to place them somewhere within the vicinity of our attention range.
There has been claims of 'out of sight, out of mind' phenomenon which I cannot completely attest to because there cannot be things we can completely get rid of despite the physical absence. Things such as memories. But on the flipside, we can make things more salient if we push them enough to exist within our attention span. And the mind can slowly register and then we start to realize how abandoned these things have been.
There are many things which are chucked aside and hidden which we may have forgotten. So before some important things are forever forgotten, we need to place them somewhere within the vicinity of our attention range.
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