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145 | Emily Balcetis | How the Ultra Successful Leverage Their Visual “Perception Gap” to Crush Their Goals and Accomplish More

The Greatness Machine

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Is There a Visual Illusion?

We found that normal people can adopt that strategy, right? They can like imagine a spotlight is shining only on a target. What we found is that that induced visual illusion, finish lines or whatever targets they focused on now appeared physically closer to them. It's inducing this illusion where they don't realize that like for other people that finish line looks further away. For them it looks like pretty close when they use this narrow sort of tunnel vision approach. When we teach people to narrow their focus of attention the way that those Olympic elites have done it leads people to move 23% faster and say that it hurt 17% less. We make that exercise actually more efficient for them.

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