Coffee in your cornflakes

Once I had a lecture by Professor Ian Robertson about forgetfulness, distraction and inattention. Why do we sometimes pour coffee in our cornflakes instead of milk? Why don't we remember how we find ourselves somewhere else? Leaving home with slippers, etc.

The answer to all the questions is automation, which is the result of routine and loos of the joy of life.

Despite the fact that one of the most sophisticated mechanisms in the world is installed between our ears, a normal statistical person on the way to work does not look around, he does not know how many and what buildings are around, do not look at people, can not even tell the colour of the co-workers' eyes.
Most of our behavioural complexes are habits. It's like a soft which we will gradually install ourselves. Looks like we look, but we don't see it because we don't pay attention. To sum up, we control only a small part of our actions, and we leave the rest of the controls in the brain. So we turn into robots.

How to avoid it?

 Ian Robertson has finished the lecture very nicely with the phrase “from time to time just try not only to look at the object, but also to see, and not only to listen, while different thoughts are running through your mind, but also to hear. Be in a moment and place where you are. And you’ll be surprised about all that beauty around you".