The Downside of Focus
The external muscles that move your eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job they do.
100 times more powerful than required, those muscles expertly orchestrate the functions of each 28-gram eyeball; which possess the capability to focus on about 50 things per second. Composed of more than 2 million working parts, your eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
You and I have incredible optical resources when it comes to the ability to focus.
However, that same power can also be a major detriment.
As the politically-incorrect Nobel Prize winning physicist Neils Bohr once correctly pointed out: "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Like the proverbial double-edge sword, our inherent talent to focus can also be a sharp blade of liability that severely and profoundly limits our potential to view the most important things we need to see.
Grab a coffee or put on a pot of tea and get ready to solve one of life’s great mysteries as we explore The Downside of Focus on this edition of The Reinvention Chronicles.
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
NEILS BOHR (1885-1962)
Director of Marketing at Cooper Equipment Rentals Limited
8 年Love the "paper clips of possibilities"! Definitely agree that laser vision focus is excellent for getting some key projects or goals completed but not great for problem solving where you have to take a step back and get out of your own head. And thank you so much for sharing the video of how to do up the clasp on a bracelet - finally! So simple and yet so genius :)