A lowered concentration of attention greatly affects a person’s performance and the results of his activity. Indeed, so often during working / school hours we notice that already half of the lecture or meeting we are not thinking about what we need.
What is attention?
Attention is the selective orientation of our consciousness to a specific object, the focus of a person on a certain subject. Attention is involuntary and arbitrary. Involuntary (passive) attention arises regardless of a person’s consciousness, if some object is too strong a stimulus (loud, sharp, unexpected) or corresponds to the interests and motives of a person. To improve attention span and increase efficiency, you need to develop voluntary attention. It is by nature much more complex than passive, because man’s volitional efforts must be applied to it.
Attention and memory
Attention and memory are very closely related, because we improve the concentration of attention precisely in order to concentrate, realize and remember the material without undue effort. We remember an object the better, the longer and stronger we concentrate our attention on it.