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Did You See That? The Invisible Gorilla.

July 18, 2010 By Sharon Odom 1 Comment

Watched a fascinating episode of Dateline NBC the other night about “inattention blindness”, where you’re attending to one thing so focused that you miss something big. something really obvious. Our eyes don’t always take in what’s right in front of us, which can trick us into missing key parts of the big picture.

It all comes down to the fact that, at any given moment, our senses are bombarded with all kinds of sights, sounds, and smells – many happening at the same time – and it’s impossible to consciously think about all of them at once. So, the brain is designed to filter out what it thinks is the unnecessary information for the task at hand, but sometimes there’s an error in that filtering process. It happens to all of us at one time or another. Think it couldn’t happen to you? Don’t be so sure.

Here’s a link to the Dateline Episode.

There’s a marketing lesson in there somewhere, don’t you think?

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  1. Dan Locke says:
    July 21, 2010 at Jul 21, 2010, 9:44 pm

    thanks. for me the lesson is that I look for what I want to see. And, if you are seeing things that you don’t want to see than you need to do some personal work. It’s all interpretation of vibration and establishment of preferences. There really is no assertion.

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  1. Dan Locke says:
    July 21, 2010 at Jul 21, 2010, 9:44 pm

    thanks. for me the lesson is that I look for what I want to see. And, if you are seeing things that you don’t want to see than you need to do some personal work. It’s all interpretation of vibration and establishment of preferences. There really is no assertion.

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