The insightful story, “The Invisible Gorilla,” demonstrates how we see our world and what we don't see. “ There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Amanack (1750). This book gave many examples, many characters, and many experiments on our intuition. Scientist and professors came together to form experiments on understanding everyday illusions and to simply recognize them. The main ideas captured the readers attention at the end of every chapter. Chabris and Simons want to help us avoid mistakes caused by intuition. There are many illusions that can hurt us such as the illusion of attention, memory, confidence, knowledge, cause, and potential. All people suffer from everyday illusions like talking on the phone while driving and still believing that we are paying enough attention on the road.
The most exciting and bewildering event was established by Ulric Neisser in the 1970s. He inspired Dan, a graduate from Cornelll University, to help him organize
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For example, over confidence can lead to bad things. People who still are very overconfident, until they get caught. Motorcyclist aren't usual to the human eye while driving and that is why there are many motorcycle accidents with cars. A terrible event took place were people died during the presidency of George Bush. Captain Scott Waddle in charge of the nuclear submarine USS Greenville near Hawaii made a deep dive. Suddenly the ship emerged out of the water hitting a fishing boat, the Ehime Maru. The Greenville sliced the fishing boat in half. Six passengers and two officers died that day due to inattentional blindness. The commander was looking eye tracker, but not seeing. Scientist believed he may not have looked through tracker long enough, or enough times. Daniel from the same invisible gorilla experiment proved it wasn't the commanders