We tend to prioritize what the action and not what we're hearing. More of our brain spaces is taken up to respond to visual input than auditory input or tactile input. We base a lot of what we see, what we're going to think based on what it is that we're seeing. To be able to prepare for something that might be dangerous by being able to see it before it's right upon us.
Social psychologist Emily Balcetis has devoted her career to understanding how people’s perceptions of the world fuel their motivations and life goals. In this episode she goes in-depth on that wealth of research, what she’s learned from studying some of the world’s most successful people and how they set goals, and how you can get better results in life if you change the way you see the world and where you place your focus. Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU), focused on how the motivations, emotions, needs, and goals people hold impact the basic ways people perceive, interpret, and ultimately react to information around them. She is also the author of the book
Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, which was released in 2020. --
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