“People only see what they are prepared to see.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Have you ever starting off driving in one direction, only to suddenly notice you have taken a completely wrong turn purely out of habit? We can see where we are going, but we haven’t really been watching.
Whenever this happens we usually blame it on being distracted. But how does this “autopilot” suddenly switch itself on? Why do we sometimes find ourselves blindly missing the obvious?
You may be surprised to know that you are probably doing this kind of sleepwalking all the time. Because of the sheer amount of sensory information that your poor brain has to process, it’s much easier for it to apply filters to everything it sees, hears, tastes, smells or touches.
What this means is that you don’t really “see” things you are habitually used to seeing. This makes it difficult to spot when things are a little different from normal.
The problem is, if you have your filters on high, then sure, you’ve managed to escape being bombarded with all the irrelevant junk out there. But what if a fantastic opportunity accidently ended up in your sensory spam folder? continue reading…
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