Attention Blindness In Cathy Davidson's Now You See It

“The science of attention teaches us that we tend to pay attention to what we have been taught to value and that we tend to be astonishingly blind to change until something disrupts our pattern and makes us see what has been invisible before.” Page 243

Common sense to dictate that people will acknowledge problems before it occurs. You would think that people will be able to understand the outcome before it happens but that is not true. In part four of Cathy Davidson’s, “Now You See it”, she emphasize the importance of working with other people to help us to see what we are missing. In discussion of attention blindness, it is very difficult for a person alone to develop ingenious idea of solution to a problem because that person may only see the scope of a bigger picture.
On one hand, society may depict this “handicap” as a hindrance in terms of learning and understanding concepts. On the other hand, Davidson argues that this is a great opportunity to gain different insight of that situation. We don’t need to rely on major events or crises to learn mistakes to see the

What is more interesting to note, Davidson implies that people are hesitant to change. Very few people take risk in creating a new system that might be better than the standard business practice. In a normal business days, people may see that there are no problems as everything is regulating orderly. However, due to the same routine people may not see that they are not setting up for success at all. Davidson wants to prove and motivate others that new differences is the key to becoming successful. In her reading, Davidson explains “To make collaboration by difference work, we have to understand how our own multifarious talents might come into play in new ways.” (Davidson 217) Once people understand the strength and weakness of the person then we will see the problem that was invisible before and fix