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August 9, 2003
Rev: August 17, 2004
I call it the "trick of attention":
The learned ability to focus in on
the world, to turn up the gain on
your senses, to perceive everything
that can be perceived.
As opposed to the normal
running mode of seeing
only what we need to
see... Feel like I must've written
about this before, but it's
We live with perceptual not out there in the
filters that screen out doomfiles at the moment.
"unimportant" detail.
Maybe I need to
Not a new idea by any means. pay attention.
Holmes: "You have seen,
but you have not *observed*."
Of course, Holmes was
talking about precise
scientific observation,
which is a little But it is connected:
different. one of the things you
learn in scientific
work is that you can
detect tiny differences
if you try.
E.g. on a
typical mercury
thermometer, you
can read it to
I have the impression a tenth of
that many people never a degree, plus/
learn this trick. minus one tenth.
They go through life
with shields up. On the other hand:
AMERICANBEAUTY
I was trying to explain this
to a friend once, then stopped
when I realized I was probably
going into too much detail:
"But of course, *you* know what
I mean. You can learn it from Now me, I probably
Zen, you can learn it from John learned it from
Cage, you can --" bad science fiction
where mystic psychic
"Actually, I think I learned it abilities abound.
from doing acid."
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"Oh."
Trying to be
Matt Murdock.
One use for this "trick",
is to overcome over-familiarity,
to see what's in front of you
that you've stopped seeing
because you've seen it too long.
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