The Importance of Focusing on What You See

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What we think of as focus is that we tend to pay most attention to what's right in front of us. Show people something and don't tell them about what they're not seeing, he says. And they often won't think to question it. Chris: The possibility grid is a great... A lot of books like this are just tell you how weird we are and move on. Not this one. As you go, you get tools to deal with these things.

In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The Invisible Gorilla, are back to offer us a vital tool to not only inoculate ourselves against getting infected by misinformation but prevent us from spreading it to others, a new book titled Nobody's Fool.

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