There is a big difference between merely seeing things and observing them. You might as well be seeing something but mentally you are not present there on the hand when you are observing something it improves your mindfulness because it encourages you to be present and aware of the details of your daily life.Observation skills refer to the ability to use all five of your senses to recognize, analyze and recall your surroundings. Take this test and find out how good are your observation skills.In this picture, you can see a bathroom. It is a neatly arranged bathroom stacked with a lot of toiletries. But, there is also a toy car hidden somewhere. The challenge is to find it. But you have only 6 seconds to find it.So, did you find it?The car is in the shower area on the bottom left side of the image. Hidden between all those shampoo bottles.
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For those of you who could spot it in 6 seconds, well congratulations you have good observation skills.For those who couldn’t, well there’s an opportunity to improve your observation skills.You can improve them by
- Cutting out distractions- practice active listening which makes you enter a state of flow and minimizes distractions.
- Mental workout- a good way to do this is by playing games like cryptograms, logic puzzles, pictionary. It sharpens your brain and helps you deduce information that isn’t immediately obvious.
- Other effective techniques for developing your observation skills include looking at pictures and describing them, selecting random items and searching for them everywhere you go, and attempting to make a list of everything in your living room.
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