Seeing Is Making Meaning Out of That Information

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The focus thing is super interesting because it's almost like we're filtering too at the same time, our eyes are taking in so much information that it's almost impossible to process everything. Our brain has created this great algorithm to help us do that really efficiently and take these little bits of light and craft something meaningful out of it. But we can only do that if we can put those little bits of information into context.

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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