The blind spot effect : how to stop missing what's right in front of you

The blind spot effect How to stop missing what's right in front of you

Kelly Boys

Book - 2018

From our earliest years, we all acquire blind spots in the way we perceive, feel, and think. Driven by our biology, life experiences, cultural messages, and physical environment, they profoundly affect us throughout our lives. This informative and practical guide invites us to understand: how we get them, how to bring them to light, and how to work with that newfound awareness to improve our lives.

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Subjects
Self-perception.
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Mindfulness (Psychology)
Self-help publications.
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
Boulder, Colorado : Sounds True [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Kelly Boys (author)
Physical Description
vii, 191 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190).
ISBN
9781622039975
  • Introduction
  • 1. Attentional Blink What We Miss and How We Miss It
  • 2. You See It ... but You Don't See It Decoding the Stories in Our Minds
  • 3. Shortcut to Flow State Hacking Faulty Intuitions
  • 4. Choose Your Own Adventure Discovering Personalized Core Beliefs
  • 5. The Full Spectrum Welcoming Emotional Blind Spots
  • 6. Love Is Blind First Impressions and Falling in Love
  • 7. Self-Compassion ... and the Big Reveal
  • 8. F * ck Feedback Illuminating How Others See Us
  • 9. Trust Your Gut Uncovering Your Intuitional Navigation System
  • 10. Happy Trails A Concise Guide to Working with Your Blind Spots
  • Afterword the Biggest Blind Spot of All
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • About the Author
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This worthwhile debut from Boys, who helped launch Google's "Search Inside Yourself" mindfulness program, lays out a self-help plan designed to address the personal "blind spots" that distort people's thinking. "We are all like Hiroo in some way, blindly defending something that does not need defending anymore," says Boys, referring to a Japanese intelligence officer who, stranded on an island in the Philippines after WWII, did not learn for decades that the war had ended. A blind spot can be a compulsion to be liked, a "recycled" or recurrent emotion like anxiety, or a feeling of unworthiness-any unconscious driver of self-destructive behaviors. The author draws on the work of prominent psychologists, such as Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (the subjects of Michael Lewis's 2016 book The Undoing Project), and mindfulness teachers, such as Jon Kabat-Zinn, to discuss how readers can get to "home base"-a state of honesty with oneself and access to one's intuition. Boys's prose does not sparkle, but it is persuasive, and readers will appreciate the series of meditation practices provided. This book takes a simple idea and drives it home. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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