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How You Perceive the World Isn’t Quite Right & Why Productivity is Very Overrated

Something You Should Know

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How Do We Perceive the World?

When you look at our ability to perceive the world compared to, say, any other animal, do we tend to do better than most? Do we see and perceive less than many? Where are we on the scale? You can draw some comparisons. For example, humans have incredibly sharp vision. Our hearing is very good, but it's limited in its range. And then there are sensors that we absolutely do not even have. We cannot sense the Earth's magnetic field like a humble robin or even some kinds of insects can. So we are very good in some areas, very, very poor in a lot of areas, and that's kind of the norm for the animal kingdom. Nothing

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