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There's this fantastic nonprofit called SUGi.blindness. But I would say, don't stop there.
It is community eye care-- providing high-quality, cost-effective, readily available eye care at the doorsteps of rural India.Blindness impacts not only the individual, but also the family and the society at large.There is a huge financial loss because the people with visual impairment are not able to work.
New type of fintech companies coming in.Blindness, aging, and all that.
experiential blindness. So now I'm gonna cure you of your experientialblindness. This is always my favoritepart of any talk. Should I do that again?
Here's what I knew in the back of that car that day.Blindness will ruin my life.Blindness is a death sentence for my independence.
Blindness will ruin my life.Blindness is a death sentence for my independence.Blindness is the end of achievement for me.
Blindness is a death sentence for my independence.Blindness is the end of achievement for me.It means that I am going to live an unremarkable life, small and sad.
William James, who was a fan of Addams's-- and they were in a mutual admiration society, I guess-- William James talks about this as overcoming a certainblindness. He wrote an essay based on a lecture he gave to teachers called "Overcoming a Certain Blindness in Human Beings," where he says-- he tells a story.He's being shown some settlements in North Carolina out in the woods.
things wrong and knowing those things in advance uh can be enormously beneficial so think of something like absenceblindness that's a cognitive bias our brain malfunctions in in treating things that aren't there as less important thanthings there are when really the things that are absent may be more important than the things that are there the more
But-- so another thing I loved reading about the book was just this highlighting the idea of blindness.Plant blindness was one.I, myself, I don't have a green thumb or anything.
I have personally seen the amazing work that Sankara Eye Foundation has done in India.Most blindness is curable or preventable, but most people in rural India cannot afford basic eye care.Sankara Eye is bridging this gap by bringing world class eye care to rural India for free.
we do, it gives the sense that what we do is sort of creeptastic, that we manipulate people by saying things like we understand that they haveinattentional blindness, that they don't see everything, that their eye takes them, they only see what they pay attention to.So maybe we can manipulate what they pay attention to to get them to do something.
your brain hasn't found a good match, and you're in a state that scientists callexperiential blindness. So now I'm gonna cure you of your experientialblindness. This is always my favorite
But that would be a place to look.to blindness-- to lobbying for government to spend tax money on that sort of thing?
CO2 isn't one of them.Willful blindness, I guess, is exactly what you think it would be.
OK. And then my professor put out a book they basically said not only is it not a problem that you are ignoring your customers,the blindness that companies have about their customers.
of competitive chess and we visited chess tournaments like this one. Now, chess is an interesting arena to study because chess has an objective statistical rating system thatinattentional blindness experiments or noticed changes in change blindness experiments. Things you think might, like their working memory capacity, how much stuff can they maintain
and tell you a couple stories uh and I actually wanted to uh I I think about this work a lot in ways that aren't justabout blindness so I think I for me I've drawn lessons about leadership and Innovation uh and everybody has their own definition of leadership andInnovation it's almost like Southern pork barbecue everybody has a different recipe um but so my for my recipe for uh
criteria that we've gotten used to, we are going to be very poorly set up to recognize life in novel embodiments. I think we havea kind of mind blindness. I think this is really key. To me, the cognitive spectrum is much more interesting than the spectrum of life. I thinkreally what we're talking about is the spectrum of cognition. And, it is... Well, I know it's weird as a biologist to say, I don't think life is all
form to the you know, the FDA in the US to get approval to treat blindness, couple oftypes of blindness in people, um as early, if all goes well, as next month.And what what exactly is happening there? Cuz cuz there's many ways one might fix blindness. Mhm. You know?
So I'm assuming there are benefits to all of these things in the natural world.But that blindness can be such an impediment to all these folks that could really help.So are there-- what benefits do you think are--
is curing river blindness, you have no real purpose and meaning is elusive.
where my blindness would simply be something that we could get around, that I could contribute to the team,
Motivated by Swami Vivekananda's thinking of think big, don't accept any limitations, we came up with a big visionto eradicate curable blindness in India.And now we are the largest free eyecare provider with performing over 210,000 free eye surgeries at our own 10 Sankara Eye Hospitals
So what's interesting is that the reason we couldn't pay attention to that is actually a characteristic of the brain, our bias knownas inattentional blindness. And the fact is that the brain mostly only notices the things that we tell it to look for.Everything else is kind of ignored.
Many people think that blindness is like a black or white thing.
And river blindness can cause these terrible hydroceles.
with face blindness. He had a huge, huge impact on these people.
and just general blindness accessibility, especially nowadays, when you don't have to pay $300 for a screen reader--
I had snow blindness, nearly snow blindness.
And the night blindness disappeared from the whole country.
I felt terrified. And what was I thinking?I was thinking blindness will absolutely ruin my life.In fact, I wasn't thinking that so much as I knew it.
Meanwhile, fear's spell remains unbroken.So my villain was Blindness, not with a lowercase b as in the condition of sightlessness, but Blindness with a capital B, this amorphous bogeymanthat was going to hunt me down and destroy my life.
I was on the sidelines, right?Watching as Blindness was out way in front and only widening the gap.Didn't look very good for me.
A cane is like an arbitrary detail, right?We were talking about blindness.I say her, no, Chris, I don't use cane.
cause of preventable blindness in the world that affects people in developing countries-- pretty cheap to prevent.
Test for color blindness and color contrast.
So James says, as teachers, how do we enter into someone else's reality?How do we overcome blindness so that we can engage in cooperation?So we've gone from autonomy and liberation in Jefferson to animation, making the world more of an alive
often lead to blindness.
cause of blindness in India.
as a river blindness, lymphatic filarisasis-- which is also known as elephantitis-- and schistosomiasis.
And River Blindness is not the disease of places that you look at and sanitation is bad
And River Blindness can cause these terrible hydroceles.
I call it blindness.
Some people have color blindness.
Now color blindness does not mean people can't see colors.
The term color blindness is misleading.
What color blindness means is that there are certain pairs of colors that people cannot just tell apart.
gorilla experiment the tension blindness experiment uh some people are nodding some aren't so I'll just explain it very quickly an attention blindness it's a
in the attention blindness experiment that was originally done in the 1970s by I ner and everyone said this would
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