Seth's Blog : The things you can't see
The things you can’t see
Do you remember all the elements you didn’t used to notice?
It might be the way you see typography now, or the tuning of an orchestra. Or the alignment in the mouldings of a house you’re inspecting or the way an engine sounds… (or whether you put a ‘u’ in moulding)
Expertise is about learning new ways to notice.
Often, once we learn to see, we assume we’ve always known. And that allows us to believe that the things we can’t see, we’ll never be able to see.
But it doesn’t work that way unless we get complacent.
There’s always something just below the surface, the elements that most people simply don’t notice. But we can if we choose.
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