Do you want to have more confidence in the future? Observe a photo of nature!

    A photo of nature could help you have more faith in the future and be more optimistic

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    Print a photo of your last walk in the nature identity and place it well in sight. This could help you have more confidence in the future.

    In the wake of the "biophilia"Hypothesized by the American biologist Edward O. Wilson - according to which you cannot live a healthy and complete life away from nature - a group of Dutch scholars from VU University has in fact shown that nature helps people to evaluate their future in a more positive way.

    The study, published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, starts from the observation that human beings "evolved by preferring immediate rewards", including excessive exploitation of natural resources. Now, according to the research, people who, for example, watch plants grow would have more control over spending, just as a window to a green space would encourage concentration. But even just looking at photos of natural landscapes could lead to strong gratification, strengthening the ability to think long term.

    Do you want to have more confidence in the future? Observe a photo of nature!

    Basically, an environment lush and lush, or a photo of it, leads to long-term and optimistic thinking more than gray urban landscapes, made only of "instability" and "social competition". To reach these conclusions, the researchers asked the participants to observe photographs of nature and choose whether to accept 100 euros immediately or up to 170 euros but at least three months later, with the result that the natural dimension clearly won over the urban one.

    Do you want to have more confidence in the future? Observe a photo of nature!


    In short, the exposure of people to natural landscapes extends their time horizons, while exposure to cityscapes dramatically narrows perspectives. The secret? What if we all turned to biophilia?


    Do you want to have more confidence in the future? Observe a photo of nature!

    Foto: Dody Kusuma, Another Perspective of the Day
    Luogo: bira beach - Makassar – South Sulawesi – Indonesia

    Germana Carillo

    Read also:

    - The UN proclaims World Nature Day: it will be March 3, 2014

    - The growing nature: a beautiful video by Csobot

    - Biodiversity: 10 proposals to give value to nature

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