Friday 24 August 2012

Face Recognition Training: Why It Makes So Much Sense

How Many Faces You See in a Day is a Staggering Number

To determine whether or not face recognition training can benefit you, consider how many faces do you see in 15 minutes of television show watching.
Fifty-eight faces and four crowd scenes is the number I came up with recently. If you watch one hour of television per day, that’s 232 faces. If you go to school or church one day a week, add another 30 to 100 faces to recognize; we’ll average this to a low of 50.
If you work in a people-related business, such as a retail store or mall, law enforcement, at a state job, or the media, add another 50 faces on the average that you must recognize each day. If you work out at a health club, add another 40 faces to include health club staff, people in aerobics classes or on the bikes/treadmills, and people you know. Right now, you’re at about 372 faces! That’s a lot!
How do you keep them straight? How do you develop face recognition skills that can accurately remember and recognize faces?

How Your Brain Recognizes Faces

You might say, “Oh, I don’t need to remember all those faces I see so it doesn’t matter.”
And certainly you don’t need to remember all 372 faces. The problem comes in because when we see so many faces daily, we tend to start categorizing faces as unimportant to look at. This is similar to seeing cars on the road. Once you’ve seen the Smart Car, there’s no more “need” to look hard at another one, right?
The human brain operates by pattern recognition. This is the real reason why your brain categorizes faces as unimportant. After you recognize the face is human, not alien or another species, is there really a reason to look at the details?
Yes, there is. It’s the same reasoning as what is offered in the philosophy of “taking time in life to smell the roses”. If you rush through life without seeing the little miracles around you, you get to the end of life wondering why you missed so much. Here’s a great video that sums up the benefits offace recognition

Are You Missing Out on the Beauty in Life?

If you categorize faces as unimportant after you notice that the face has two eyebrows, two eyes, a nose, mouth, chin, cheeks and forehead, you miss out on the beauty in faces that surround you.
And frankly, that’s a lot of beauty to miss in life.
Every time you observe something that is beautiful, your soul stops momentarily and takes a break. It checks out of the fast lane of stress and a moment of reprieve is offered.
Think of how your soul stops momentarily and takes a break when you observe a beautiful waterfall, landscape or flower. That moment of discovery of the beauty resets your attitude to appreciation and to wonderment. You realize there still are things of wonder left in the world. And you come back renewed.
How often do you get out to nature to observe the beauty found there? For most people, it’s only on weekends or on vacations. 
With face recognition training, you can have that same experience of wonderment, appreciation and beauty every day simply by looking into the faces of those around you. When you actually see the details of each face, faces come alive to you in 3-D and in high resolution.
After people learn face recognition training from the Who Was That Person? ebook series, the comments are always the same:  “I never saw eyebrows until I read the first book. I never saw eyes until I read the second book. I will never look at the face again like the old way I used to!”
Life is a lot more beautiful with face recognition training but you won’t know until you try it.
For more information on how to improve your face recognition skills with face recognition training, see http://www.WhoWasThatPerson.com

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