Visual Intelligence

This very common filter goes by many different names, including cognitive bias, confirmation bias, myside bias, wishful seeing, and tunnel vision.

switch to something that uses a different set of skills,

the most information possible, don’t close your eyes to anything, even someone else’s subjectivity.

How we innately feel about something is informed by our personal experiences, which in turn contribute to our perceptual filters—filters that distort or enhance the way we see.

Observe the same object for three times as long, or three minutes, and see how much more you can find. Do this with a different item every day for a week, and you will notice by the end how the practice has increased your ability to focus and remember what you’ve seen.

Think of the billion-dollar companies built on their attention to detail. Apple didn’t come by its reputation for aesthetic perfection by accident. The company consciously sweats every detail from examining each pixel on a screen with a photographer’s loupe to employing a team of packaging designers who spend

Habit, boredom, laziness, overstimulation—there are many reasons we tune out.

In describing the Hopper painting, while “a round, white, marble table” and “a round, white-topped table” are just one word off, it’s an important word. That the table is made of marble has not been proven; it’s not a fact. It could just as easily be painted wood or Carrara glass; popular craftsman Oscar Bach made tabletops out of white onyx in the

months perfecting the box-opening experience.