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Your brain is smarter than you think- really!

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Dr. Grayden Solman, Allan Cheyne and Daniel Smilek from the University of Waterloo (Canada) published “Found and missed: Failing to recognize a search target despite moving it” in Cognition.  They describe what they term an “unpacking” experience- our ability to search and find an object.  The issue is that while searching for an item, we often have already found the object we seek- we just don’t realize it’s in our grasp. It seems that our various executive functions are all operating at different speeds- and our perception, our ability to coalesce this knowledge, is not able to keep pace.

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America’s Got Talent? Yes, and it does beat practice…

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We have been deluged recently with books and articles extolling the need to practice, practice, practice.  Now, don’t get me wrong- I, too, understand the need for honing one’s craft.  But, I am sick and tired of folks neglecting the need to recognize talent.

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