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The art of looking straight at something and seeing nothing at all.
means Failure to apply the mind or attention to something, especially when attention was called for.
from Built from the Latin negative prefix 'in-' (not) plus 'attention,' itself from 'attendere' — 'ad-' (toward) plus 'tendere' (to stretch). To attend something was literally to stretch your mind toward it; inattention is the mind that never bothered to stretch.
- legal term
- Core concept in negligence law, not just daydreaming
- gorilla study
- Half of viewers miss a gorilla walking through a basketball game
- driving risk
- Causes more crashes than drunk driving, researchers estimate
- attention is finite
- Focusing hard on one thing guarantees blindness elsewhere