What Eyes Want - Christopher Butler

Visual processing is so intense that once we see something salient such as a color or a shape, we start to tune out other visual information—never mind sounds—in order to make sense of what we see.

For him, actual looking was a skill and a conscious decision that people rarely practiced; there was “a lot to see” only if you were willing and able to see it.

Attention is about every one of your senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch. It is about taking in as much as we possibly can, through all of the avenues available to us. It is about learning not to leave anything out—anything, that is, that is relevant to the goals that you’ve set. And it is about realizing that all of our senses affect us—an