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Herbert Simon Quote on Attention and How Eyes Communicate Priority

    “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

    Herbert Simon, via Stillness is the Key (Page 30)

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    The vast majority of the information that we use to process the world comes in through our eyes. Next most is through our ears. It follows, then, that where our eyes are pointed will determine where the majority of the information that we’ll obtain will come from. If our eyes are pointed at another person, the majority of the information that we’ll end up taking in will come from what we see while looking at that person. And the same is true if our eyes are pointed at a screen, at the road while we’re driving, at a stranger passing us down the street, etc. Eyes communicate priority.

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