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How Did Jules Verne Kept You Reading?
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French Author and was titled 'Father of Science Fiction' and had made some popular titles like Journey To the Centre of The Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the main topic, Around the World in Eighty Days. Though popular, stories about amazing and unbelievable adventures has been existing for quite a long time ago, so how does this one make a difference?
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In Depth in Describing
Nowadays, writers would describe the bigger picture of the background or the setting in a scene due to the rising number of casual readers, so everything was kept simple.
But there is a beauty in Verne's work; which was how detailed and well written his descriptions that let us, the readers able to perfectly imagine what was in a certain scene. Although it made the book more complex, but it helps to train how you imagine detailed things and to really feel the scene in the book.
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What Can We Learn From Being Attentive to Details?
In working or writing, it's clear that we must finish something before the deadline comes. But sometimes we did small mistakes that could cost a lot because we were being inattentive enough. By caring towards the small details on a bigger picture, we might learn how to make something better by just adding or tweaking a little bit. This will help a lot in efficiency in writing or making a report.
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Learning to Put Attention On The Little Things
There are few daily exercises that everyone can do to increase attention to the little things:
- Look out for typos. We text people a lot, how about double checking your text before you send to look for typos.
- Look around you. When you are sitting in a park, look at the birds, the trees and the enviorment to see what you had missed by not looking very closely.
- Properly clean. During cleaning up, look for dirty spots that aren't noticable and clean it.
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