Mary Bast and Clarence Thomson
Change blindness – a phenomenon in visual perception where large changes are undetected by the viewer.
Mary: I learned about change blindness in an October 2006 APA Monitor article by Zak Stambor, who cites as illustration a card trick by psychology professor Dan Simons. Clarence and I have used the same card trick in workshops, as a metaphor for how our Enneagram focus of attention can keep us blind to anything but what we expect to see:
“Pick one [card] and poin...
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