EPISODE · Nov 12, 2021 · 8 MIN

S03 E46 Power In Acknowledging What Is

from An Ounce - For Your Consideration · host Jim Fugate

The human tendency to see want we want to see is an innate condition. One that perhaps keeps us happy, by blinding us from what we don’t want to know – or just simplifying life by ignoring what we decide doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s an outgrowth of “Confirmation Bias” that tends to open our eyes to see what we expect – or believe. It could be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon where - what one focuses on, thinks about, and put energy towards - becomes more noticeable because of the familiar neural pathways we’ve created in our brains.Regardless of the reason – it happens. And, it can be very useful to us.However, it may also blind us – those things we don’t expect, that we don’t want to know, or that we haven’t noticed much before – they remain hidden from our conscious mind. Like our keys laying on the side table under the key rack.This can be a problem.