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Your power of observation is fueled by attention. You give your attention and receive information. You can use the info to assess whatever is at hand and interpret the happenings before you. This is your gift.
In my most recent edition of the B-News, I included information about a Harvard researchers report entitled "Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events," It gives us evidence about how fixing our attention can affect our ability to "see."
Quote-"In the study, test subjects were shown videos of people passing a basketball back and forth and told to count the number of passes. During the presentation, a short person wearing a gorilla costume walked through the action. When finished, the viewers were asked if they had observed anything unusual.
About fifty percent of the test subjects did not report noticing the person in the gorilla costume.
The researchers tested another group of observers and this time the costumed person stopped moving while facing the camera, thumped its chest and then moved on.
This is where the study got interesting. Once again, only half noticed the gorilla costumed person.
When our attention is so fixed on something, we fail to notice other things that are happening right in front of us. This shows what many motivational authors, teachers and speakers have been sharing for thousands of years. We reap what we sow. Where we "sow" our attention is where we "reap" recall. What we attend to is exactly what we are able to report to others. If we focus on negatives, we report negatives, even when positive things are happening right in front of us. Conversely, if we focus on positive aspects of our lives, we can use "inattentional blindness" to screen out negatives." (end quote)
In my opinion, we do this when we do not listen also. You hit the nail on the head my friend. The dialog of the deaf subverts progress in all aspects of life.
John Pistorius
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