In psychology there is a phenomenon they call a “schetoma,” or a blind spot. Through this phenomenon it is possible that you don’t see opportunities if you don’t believe you can achieve it.
Count the “F’s” in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…
How many did you count?
You will think I’m kidding if I told you there are 6! I am not kidding you. Read it again carefully.
The reasoning behind it will really amaze you. It seems the brain cannot process “OF.” Is this incredible or what? Go back and look again! Anyone who counts three “F’s” is normal, and four is quite rare. You can try it with your friends and see how they do.
If we have a “blind spot” when we look for something we will have trouble recognizing it when we see it. Let’s say for example that you are asked to go to the kitchen, open the cabinet above the stove and get the bowl of sugar on the second shelf. So you go to the kitchen, open the cabinet above the stove and look at the second shelf so you can find the bowl of sugar. You look for it and finally after a minute you give up and say, “I looked for it and it was not there.” In the meantime someone comes along and points to the sugar bowl sitting on the second shelf right in front of your eyes. How come you did not see it? You were looking for it, it was there, you set your eyes on it and yet you could not locate it.
Now imagine for a moment that you are unhappy and you can’t see how you can be happy. Maybe the real reason for being unhappy is that you have a schetoma, or a blind spot to happiness. It is possible that you are not seeing the good reasons for you to be happy and that you have become thoroughly blind to being happy. Are we blind to happiness as a society? It may be true that being happy may require us to “see,” with the eyes of happiness. In other words, we may need to know we can see happiness, in order to really see what has been there all along.
The only way to really see yourself being happy, is to be happy and then you can see happiness for yourself and in yourself.
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© 2009 Giber Becerra, Sports Performance Republic, LLC
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