Cognitive Patience

Greetings community, a few days ago I was very surprised because I was with a girl of approximately 5 years old, daughter of a co-worker. To entertain her, they gave her an old paper magazine with color photos. My surprise was when the girl insisted on giving her with his finger to the photographs so that they would be enlarged, he asked me, Why aren't they enlarged?

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Without a doubt, the way these children understand the world and relate to reading is totally different. The responsibility lies with the internet and screens because the arrival of these new instruments has affected the skill called “cognitive patience”, the power of the ability to concentrate on more complex tasks for much longer.

With the arrival of multitasking, today you can do several things simultaneously, without requiring exclusive concentration. An example is the fact that e can be written while listening to a documentary and looking at the weather data. Although this implies the ability to solve all types of tasks in less time, in reality, very serious research indicates that multitasking also has an adverse effect. It happens is running. Thus establishing work of minimum quality. In addition, intellectual growth is also reduced by the lack of attention to more things at the same time, the central focus of what concentration actually authenticates the necessary time is lost, this leads to a deficit of attention in small tasks, in small details. and speed that does not offer knowledge.

The arrival of the digital world has meant that a greater number of things can now be executed in less time. Sadly this has made us increasingly impatient, this impatience has also reached the world of reading, it is not interesting because I can get a summary, or simply resort to the audio book that does not depend on my eyes or my mind but only listening, we are losing cognitive patience.