With the increase of working years, more and more office workers find themselves with poor energy and easily distracted. Liu, who works as a copywriter in an office building, found that one thing he did in the past six months was often divided into several paragraphs. After a while, the phone rang and someone sent a message on MSN. After a while, the leader asked you to say a few words. As a result, he often does several things at the same time and is exhausted after one day's work. He can't help but sigh: people are old and their energy is not enough. So, why do middle-aged people like to be distracted? Is this unique to middle-aged people?
American scholars have found from the anatomical point of view that middle-aged people are more easily distracted by the interference information in the office. The reason is that after people reach middle age, due to the influence of age, the way they use their brains will change accordingly. In other words, with the increase of age, the ability of the human brain to eliminate irrelevant interference information will decline. Some researchers compared the brains of young people, middle-aged people and old people, and found that the degree of damage to brain circuits used to maintain normal attention range is proportional to age. In fact, there are two key areas in the brain that control attention. These two areas enable people to clearly separate the object of attention from the background.
Under normal circumstances, when the attention is highly concentrated, the neural activities in the prefrontal cortex will become very active, while the activities in the brain areas related to the middle and anterior lobes (monitoring background activities) will become inhibited; When attention is relaxed, the activities of these two brain regions are just the opposite.
However, studies have also shown that this pattern of alternating activity between two brain regions has gradually become disordered since the age of 40. This is also the anatomical mechanism why the elderly are more easily distracted.
However, for young people living in modern times, they may not have to worry about this. Because many scholars are also trying to prove that people who can perform multiple tasks at the same time at work can improve communication and performance, rather than being distracted, sleeping or forgetting. Based on this assumption, a famous American scholar believes that modern young people may still have a good ability to cope with interruptions and prevent distractions when they are old, because their brains have been honed by high-tech information media when they are young, and they have the ability to ensure good attention in all kinds of disturbing information. This adaptation phenomenon also makes sense physically and psychologically.
So the white-collar workers in the office building, maybe the phone you answer every day, the email you send and receive, and the flashing MSN are all helping you improve your age adaptability.
I don't know much about this either. After all, I'm not that old. I searched this online. I hope it will help you a little. But I think that in any case, health is the capital of the revolution. It is always right to exercise more, rest more and eat more nutritious food.