In the early 1990's, Christ Chabris and Daniel Simons did a study at Harvard. They asked participants to count the number times a basketball was passed between different people. While the people passed the ball, a person in a gorilla suit walked into the middle of them, pounded his chest, and then walked off screen.
Shockingly, roughly half of the participants were so focused on their job-- counting the passes-- that they didn't even see the gorilla.
This experiment reveals two things: that we are missing a lot of what goes on around us, and we all unaware of how much we are missing.
And we do this in our college prep all the time.
Because we focus so much on the task we have been given, we can easily miss the big ideas that are right in front of us-- the gorilla.
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