One day, when I was waiting in line for nucleic acid testing, I looked up and found that a few days ago, the roadside was still a bleak tree. The green shoots 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 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 the color of this life. This beautiful scenery is left to me alone.

With the popularity of smart phones, people are increasingly dependent on them.

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 and one line every day. It was not until he had to observe the surrounding environment to 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", observe the scenery around us, discover the details that others have overlooked, and relive the surprises of life in the process and pick up our lost attention.

The author of this book is columnist and journalist Rob Walker. In the book, he provided us with 13 1 exercises, from which we could find inspiration and 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 have no spare capacity to pay attention to the surrounding scenery.

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

What can we do to improve our observation when 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 thought the sound was annoying, but after actively looking for it, his feelings became 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 numbers in the city, from 0 to 1, then find 2, and go on and count.

Besides sight and hearing, we can also feel the world through other basic senses-smell, touch and taste. When walking, we might as well smell, touch and taste, and we will always encounter 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 look at 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 will look at the buildings and trees running behind it and 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 discover our 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, you should listen to online classes, books and music; Open the video APP while eating and catch up with the latest episodes. All these are all right, but Ian Bogster, a game designer and philosopher, made a suggestion, so we might as well concentrate all our attention on one thing.

Focus on housework when doing housework, and focus on eating when eating.

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

When we want to take a photo with our mobile phone again, we might as well take out a pen and paper and draw the scenery 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 and observe carefully so as to 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. Some time ago, I went hiking with my friends 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 can'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 won't see the wonderful scenery on the top of the mountain and feel the silence of the city.

Birds are flying around us, cicadas are chirping in the trees, 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 if I find one that is very popular or has a good evaluation, I will 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 food, but he also found some delicious food that he had never heard of and experienced many places that 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 won't choose celebrity restaurants, familiar chain stores or shops with a lot of comments on the Internet. Instead, we walk into a store with our own feelings, order food and taste it. Maybe we can meet different surprises.

Besides some exercises and methods mentioned above, there are many interesting exercises in observing art, such as watching 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 very eye-catching. The design and drawing of this book were jointly completed by Peter Mendelssohn, the world's top book binding designer, and Oliver Mundy, 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.