Tag: focus
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Moonwalking Gorilla: The Things We Never Notice
The other day I came across a brilliant video. The viewers were asked to count the number of passes made by a team dressed in white. There was another team in black moving around in the frame, but they seemed irrelevant to the task. The instruction was clear. Focus on the white team. Count carefully.…
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Where Your Attention Goes, Your Life Follows
On Why avoiding the wrong things often leads us straight to them
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Play the game, the Score will Follow
Working on the Game, Not the Scoreboard There’s a funny story of a father and son who go to watch a sports event. The son, who doesn’t know much about the game, depends on his father to explain what’s happening. The match begins, and while everyone’s eyes are on the players, the father keeps watching…