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#154 Emily Balcetis: Setting and Achieving Goals

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Are We Getting the Whole Picture?

There's things about the way that the eyes are constructed that I think are also really interesting. We have, for the most part, two eyes on the front of our face that point forward. Think about any other animal that's an animal of prey, that it is what is eaten. Like horses, they have eyes on the sides of their head,. And so as a result, their fields of view, it's like 270 degrees., three quarters of everything that's around them, they can pick up with their eyes. Now, that's not true for us. We have to move our heads around. That's why we consciously move our eyes from, at least in the United States,

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