{"id":84,"date":"2013-10-25T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-09-14T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T02:02:52","slug":"if-quicksprout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] &#8216;We have a shorter attention span than goldfish&#8217; with Neil Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-222\" alt=\"Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-222\" alt=\"Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Neil-Patel-e1372790835175-640x332-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a short attention span? Have you ever stopped what you were doing to do something else. Then before you started that new thing you, it just vanished from your mind?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Informative Friday&#8221; is all about our brain, how it processes information and what we can do about it.\u00a0Before we get to the video I want to introduce the inspiration for todays post, Neil Patel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221;\u00a0the average attention span is 8 seconds.&#8221; &#8211; Neil Patel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t read <a href=\"https:\/\/quicksprout.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">quicksprout.com<\/a> you are missing out. Neil has quietly (or maybe not so quietly) developed the single most useful resource for online marketers. Best of all, he gives away 99% of the information for free.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Neil wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quicksprout.com\/2013\/08\/08\/this-is-your-brain-on-visualization\/?display=wide\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> about the average attention span of humans compared to that of your everyday pet goldfish. The data was mind boggling, the average person has a SHORTER attention span than a fish. In todays video we talk about that and more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch Neil:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" name=\"wistia_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/rjt0rhx1t8\" height=\"370\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-style: normal;\">&gt; Share the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/9I153\">Video<br \/>\n<\/a><strong style=\"font-style: normal;\">&gt; See Neil&#8217;s original <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quicksprout.com\/2013\/08\/08\/this-is-your-brain-on-visualization\/?display=wide\" target=\"_blank\">Infographic<br \/>\n<\/a><strong style=\"font-style: normal;\">&gt; Make videos like this: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/video-course\" target=\"_blank\">Learn<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong> Facts and Stats to Tweet<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The average attention span is 8 seconds, that&#8217;s one second shorter than a GOLDFISH [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/L76fj\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>].<\/li>\n<li>High quality infograhpics are 3 times more likely to be read than text articles. [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/vxHOe\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>50% of your brain is involved in visual processing [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/jC2Ed\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>65% of people are visual learners [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/Y4G1Z\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>People who follow visual instructions perform 323% better than those without [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/ecg9R\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>40% of people will respond better to visual information than plain text [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/B17Sv\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 50% of the brain is dedicated to visual function [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/b10d7\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Visual aids in the classroom improve learning by up to 400% [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/tbS5l\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>46% of people say a website\u2019s look was the number one criteria for discerning credibility [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/391UN\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>We now receive five times as much information everyday as we did in 1986 [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/V6LkD\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Infographics are capable of driving 250% more website traffic than a ordinary blog post [<a href=\"https:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/fK7de\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a short attention span? 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