The art of observation: put down your mobile phone and discover the joy of daily life.

One day, when I was waiting in line to do nucleic acid, I looked up and found that the roadside was still a bleak tree a few days ago. The green buds had been pulled out and Yu Yu was shining in the sun. It turns out that spring has come and life always brings joy and strength to people.

Let's take a look at the people waiting in line around us. Most of them are bowing their heads to brush their mobile phones. No one seems to care about this vivid color. This beautiful scenery is left to me alone.

With the popularity of smart phones, people rely more and more on mobile phones.

Go out to play, don't know how to get there, turn on the phone and ask for navigation; I want to eat out, but I don't know which one to choose. Open my mobile phone and read a comment.

I am also busy brushing articles and videos on my way to and from work, and the scenery on the road is completely invisible. I once heard a teacher say that one of his students lived in one place for three years and went to work at two o'clock every day. It was not until he observed the surrounding environment that he could finish the homework assigned by the teacher that he found that his original place was so beautiful.

While the development of science and technology has brought convenience, the flood of information has also attracted our attention. We are addicted to all kinds of information of electronic products and gradually turn a blind eye to the things around us.

The book "The Art of Observation" is to help us get out of this state of "turning a blind eye", to observe the scenery around us, to discover the details that others have overlooked, and in the process, to relive the surprise of life and pick up our lost attention.

The author of this book is the columnist and journalist Rob Walker. In the book, he provided us with the practice of 13 1, looking for inspiration and discovering daily fun.

Next, I will look at how we find pleasure in our daily life.

We always can't let go of our mobile phones, worrying about what we miss, the latest news, and the notice from the leaders. Mobile phones give us too many constraints. When we walk and take the bus, we pay attention to the mobile phone all the time, and there is no spare capacity to pay attention to the scenery around us.

You might as well put down your mobile phone and take a walk with your heart.

What can I do to improve my observation while walking?

Sound is everywhere, even in a quiet environment, there will be sound.

When we start to pay attention to the sounds around us, we may find something that we wouldn't normally notice.

In the book, the author said that one of his students collected sounds and collected the slight rustle of plastic bags hanging on trees. The student said that he originally thought the sound was annoying, but after actively looking for it, he felt different.

Looking for a specific thing can also help us improve our observation acuity and help us find something that we usually ignore.

For example, we can find the number in the city, from 0 to 1, and then find 2, go straight ahead and count.

Besides sight and hearing, we can also feel the world through other basic senses-smell, touch and taste. Walking, we might as well smell, touch and taste, and there will always be different surprises.

It doesn't matter if we really don't have time for a walk. We can also observe it on the way to work.

On the bus, you can see the scenery outside the window. When waiting for the red light, you can look at the roadside plants, its color, its shape and its swaying posture. When the car is walking, it looks at the buildings and trees running behind it, as well as the pedestrians passing by in a hurry.

On the subway, we can observe the passengers in the carriage and imagine what they are thinking, where they will go and what kind of stories they will have.

These observations and reflections can not only help us discover the beauty around us, but also help us find our own curiosity and get a steady stream of inspiration.

The pace of modern life is getting faster and faster. Everyone pays attention to maximizing efficiency and always likes to do several things at the same time.

When doing housework, listen to online classes, books and music; Open the video APP while eating and catch up on the latest episodes. All this is fine, but Ian Bogster, a game designer and philosopher, made a suggestion that we might as well focus all our attention on one thing.

When doing housework, concentrate on doing housework, and when eating, concentrate on eating.

The popularity of smart phones and cameras makes it convenient for everyone to pick up their mobile phones to record their lives and scenery, which brings us a lot of convenience and makes us lose the patience of observation.

When we want to pick up the mobile phone to take pictures again, we might as well take out a pen and paper and draw the landscape we want to take.

Many people may worry that they can't draw, but it doesn't matter, because our paintings are not for others to see, let alone for exhibitions. The purpose of painting is to let us slow down, observe carefully and see a richer world through observation.

When we go to a new place, we are always used to using mobile navigation.

In the book, the author suggests that you might as well turn off the navigation system during your trip, study the route in advance and print a paper map, but when you start walking.

If you accidentally go the wrong way in this process, you may be able to harvest the scenery that surprises you. I went hiking with my friends some time ago and turned off the navigation. On the way, I saw a hill with stone steps up, and we walked up.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, I found that this road couldn't go anywhere else. At a place on the top of the mountain, the road was broken.

We went the wrong way.

However, if we don't go the wrong way, we can't see the beautiful scenery on the top of the mountain and feel the silence of the city.

Birds are flying around us, cicadas in the trees are chirping, the breeze is blowing gently, the leaves are shaking, and the tiny sunshine is shining on us, washing away our fatigue.

That wrong road became the happiest memory of our day.

When I go out to eat with friends, I am used to opening a review software to search, and then I find something that is very popular or has a good evaluation and eat it.

No surprises.

This book tells the story of food columnist Jonathan Gold. When he just graduated from college, he decided to eat in every restaurant on Pico Avenue in Los Angeles. In the process, he also ate a lot of bad meals, found some unheard-of foods, and experienced many places he had never experienced before.

Later, his food column for the Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer Prize. When he died, people said, "Los Angeles lost its taste buds forever."

We might as well imitate Jonathan on a small scale. When choosing a place to eat, we don't choose celebrity restaurants on the internet, familiar chain stores or shops with many comments. Instead, I walked into a store with my own feelings, ordered food and tasted it. Maybe we can meet different surprises.

In addition to some of the exercises and methods mentioned above, there are many interesting exercises in observing art, such as looking at museums from different angles, asking strangers for directions, talking with strangers, looking for city cameras and so on.

At the same time, in addition to the relaxed and interesting content, the layout and illustrations of this book are also eye-catching. The design and drawing of the book were jointly completed by Peter Mendelssohn, the world's top book binding designer, and Oliver Munday, a famous American graphic designer.

There are surprises everywhere in the book, which is definitely worth seeing.

Let's put down the mobile phone, open the art of observation, start practicing together, and find back the daily fun and surprises.