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Youandyour
employees experience this and
you don’t even realizeit’s happening, do you?Keep your eyes peeled for
Blinks andBottlenecks
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Keep your eyes peeled...
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because if you blink...
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you might misssomething very important and
valuableI’m about to
share with you.
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Ever notice yourself consciouslystarting your commute home...
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and then ask yourself...
“How could I possiblybe home already?”
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It felt like only afew minutes had passed.*
*Assuming your commute is more than a few minutes.
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Or you’re walking to lunchwith your coworkers...
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enjoying the conversation...
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and you’ve suddenly arrived.
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Are youreyes stillpeeled?
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I was afraid you’d blinkand miss what I’m saying.
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We experience something called
attentional blinks.
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no, not
winks ;-)
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In 1987, Broadbent and Broadbent
did a study to explore the concept that
the mind has a blind spot at times.
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Here’s how their study went...
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They flashed a series of 5-letter wordsat about 10 every second.
SSSSS
time
DDDDDHHHHH
CCCCCZZZZZ
PPPPPKKKKK
AAAAAMMMMM
XXXXX
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Participants had to spot
2 particular words.
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Normally, we’d expect
to spot about
80%of the targets.
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when one target followed anotherless than a half second apart...
< 0.5secs
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...participantsdidn’t notice thesecond item...
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and theaverage proportionof correct reports
went down to nearly
0%
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You could say the participants’ attention
“blinked”for a half second afterspotting the first target.
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There’s a processing
bottleneckhappening here.
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Essentially, ourlimited capacity
for payingattention
is abotteneck.
Some things passthrough while we
miss others throughattentionalblinks.
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Consider this the next timeyou create and deliver...
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mobilee-learning
instructor-ledon-demand
or anytype of training
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What’s the cost of your employees
blinking at something
important and valuable you
share with them?
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