Listen to a psychologist tell a story

Chapter 31

Chapter 4 Section 4 Who created the catastrophe in the history of world aviation?

You can't do two things with one mind, otherwise instant forgetting will lead to bitter fruit. ? ?

Tenerife in the Atlantic Ocean is a famous tourist destination in Spain, and there is an airport to pick up and drop off passengers. One day in 1977, the sky was clear and the planes took off and landed in an orderly manner, transporting tourists from all over the world.No one thought that under extremely calm and normal circumstances, a huge disaster was approaching tourists. ?
At that time, the airport air traffic controller was about to direct a landing large passenger plane to turn to the apron, but at the same time received another request from another large passenger plane to land.The controller's brain was immediately occupied by the new task, and he turned to look intently at the large passenger plane that was about to land over the airport, and gave instructions in a decisive tone that the plane could land.However, the air traffic controller forgot that since this is only a tourist airport, it has only one main runway. On this runway, there is another large passenger plane that landed under his instruction a few minutes ago - it is waiting Taxi to the tarmac at his command. ?
When the pilot of the passenger plane that had landed was wondering why the controller hadn't issued an order to move the plane to the apron, another plane descended from the sky roaring towards the runway and collided violently with the plane waiting for the instruction. A total of 582 people died, all aircraft were destroyed, and the airport was basically destroyed. The direct economic loss amounted to more than 20 billion US dollars, becoming one of the huge disasters in the history of world aviation. ?
Mind walk?

This is a story told by a professor of psychology at Cambridge University in an experimental class on memory.The professor said that, in fact, the controller did not intentionally create this disaster, but he forgot to transfer the plane on the same runway due to short-term memory interference when two planes landed one after another. ?
Different parts of our brain play major roles at different times.The present work can make one forget the previous work and the work that is pending, and the result is forgetfulness and disaster.

Therefore, don't overestimate your ability, it's better to do things wholeheartedly, and don't use two things at once. ?
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