“Rushing leads to mistakes, and mistakes slow you down far more than slowing down does.”

Art of Perception program—I call them “the four As”—how to assess, analyze, articulate, and adapt.

And discovery is made possible by simply opening our eyes, turning on our brains, tuning in, and paying attention. Sir Isaac Newton agreed, stating, “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”

When we go into any situation thinking it’s going to be the same thing we’ve seen or done before, we’re putting up our own perceptual filter that will make any change even harder to find. The resulting blinders can cause us to miss important details, to go into autopilot, or worse, to become presumptuous about our

“The world is terribly confusing; there’s too much happening at the same time—visually, auditorily, everything—and the way we cope is by categorizing. We process the minimum we need in order to behave properly.”

“Any time you do a task—whether it’s visual, auditory or otherwise—it draws on a specific set of cognitive operations. The more tasks you perform, the more you draw from that limited pool of resources.”

expertise, abilities, or safety. And that’s when things can get dangerous.

The more familiar we are with what might alter our observations, the more astute and accurate they will be. When you’re asked to report objectively on something, ask yourself if you are reporting raw observational data or assumptions about observational data drawn after running it through the filter of your own personal experience.

Every person and situation is unique. To treat them otherwise is to deceive them and ourselves.