Every living organism leaves traces, not just a digital footprint on the Internet.
The same thing happens to a person in different roles and circumstances – familiar and relatively safe for him and in new, provocative realities, says psychologist Andrei Kashkarov.
Examples of different forms
Despite the difference in body volumes, both slugs and people do not see or understand the "invisible." For example, a snail crawls across a dirt road. A car drives along the same road and crushes the snail with its wheels.
Or a person steps on the side of the road, in the forest. At what moment and time the "big" will destroy the "small" without noticing, no one knows.
Suddenness and untimeliness, the absence of an exact "image of the future" affects both human life and the snail, ant, insects, birds and mammals. The life of any living organism is finite. The suddenness of the impact is a factor that affects everyone, but in different ways.
The mollusk's movements are not always linear; often the snail "makes a pretzel". A person cannot accurately determine why the snail crawls in circles or in the manner of the "Nesterov Loop" pattern known to pilots.
Interim conclusion: if we do not know why small forms act one way or another, then we do not know exactly how the “large” forms – other people – act. A person can assume the actions and reactions of another in different situations, relying on the system of values and reactions that is familiar to him. Conventionally, he “judges by himself.” This is an ineradicable delusion of the rational world.
Another benefit of mindfulness is the development of observational habits in children aged 2-7, when character and value systems are being formed.
It is easier (they understand) to talk to children about snails or frogs, beetles and ants than about abstruse adult problems. The child himself will gladly tell about small forms, since he is initially an interested in the world, an attentive and receptive living being.
On the benefits of mindfulness
Instead of fragmentary thinking, typical for a modern person due to a large array and choice of information, people who maintain attention to detail without significant educational routes effectively develop memory, are familiar with analytical methods and, accordingly, have achievements. This is how a research type of thinking is formed, which is very useful.
Attention to detail is a "cure" for narcissism. An element of developing critical thinking - which is typically in short supply today.
Every person is "busy". A philosopher or a praying person will say: "Don't disturb, we are communicating", but the dialogue can be silent, and communication - invisible. This does not mean that it does not exist. A mother of many children is "busy" for reasons that are quite understandable. Everyone has their own busyness, and the values that are determined are subjective.
No type of employment or goal-setting is a panacea for stupidity. A philosopher misses time for diverse hobbies, a mother of many children misses important elements of raising children due to lack of time. And even in such situations, paying attention to other people, to details, will not hurt anyone.
Expert: Andrey Kashkarov
