Robert is a famous American psychologist.
one day , he went to Times squar by tube after a day's work.
Suddenly, Robert found a may in rags laying still on the stairs with his eyes close.To catch up the subway people just like didn't saw him,they passed him hurriedly. Robert wanted to see what had happened so he stopped moving. A thought-provoking change turned up : one after the other stopped.
In a moment , the man was surrounded by the small circle people who were concerned about him.
one man bought him food , a woman bought water for him in a hurry , another man notified the subway patrol and that patrol called up the ambulance . a moment later,the man came to, he was eating when he waited for the ambulance .
The people gradually knew that the man just could speak in spanish and was as poor as rat ,he had been vagrant and hungry at street in mahattan .
Why ,at first , did the people turn a blind eye to the man and were indifference?
Robert considered that one of the important reasons is people always sink into ego state in the bustling and hurried pedestrian flow,they ignore the unimportant information , meanwhile they also ignore the people who need our help . In sociology , this phenomenon is called as
" city be in trance"
Why did the people change the manner to treat the man finally ? Robert thought that one of the important reasons was one had took care of him so that the situation changed . At that time , himself stopped just because he wanted to looke at the man in the difficulties . But the passer-by came to from the " city be in trance " so that they noticed the man needed help .
one changed , the others who surrounded him may change ; the others changed , more people may changed ; more and more people changed ,the world will be changed.........