the doctor is too tight, yeah. Too tight, too much concentration. So much grasping, fixation mind. Too much attached to the money so he cannot enjoy to have lottery. How theysay- over 100 millions, you know. He could enjoy 50 millions. But the old man is more accept the life situation, appreciate what he have, and he more accept impermanence,
During the finals, if the trophy is displayed prominently on the court, the favorite, the champion begins to struggle and lose points-- outcome fixation . And so one way, a really granular, tiny, little way, we can use to dial back on that outcome fixation is to use something also borrowed from professional athletes called cue words.
Without excitement, without appeal, without logic, data, rationale, functionality behind our ideas, our ideas would be inert. But in our fixation on fuel, we tend to neglect the other half of the equation, the frictions that oppose new ideas.
You know how when you're profoundly curious and sick with longing about something, it usually passes pretty quickly? It's an idle fixation brought on by boredom, easily confused with legitimate desire. Don't worry. Lots of people confuse the two.
football, which is its real name, but for those who don't know the sport, it's very simple. Is health and this fixation on the individual choice and individualism fundamentally contradictory,
It's how do you take N2 and make it into ammonia. It's this nitrogen fixation problem. And humans currently do this at massive scales.
We think that this indicates that adult skilled readers are using predictive knowledge, similar to the knowledge available to the language model, in order to plan their fixations efficiently. And of course, this also means that through all of these years of text experience, readers are picking up on predictive relationships
But there are really simple strategies. I've talked about outcome fixation and being wakeful, leaning into uncertainty, it's good stress, and the power of a "maybe," things like that. But also, one area we can work on is basically our own approach to uncertainty vis-á-vis
And actually, there's-- in the book, I meet some people who've done what's called osseo-integration, which is where you get rid of the socket, and you essentially drill a hole And it's also called direct skeletal fixation .
Well, I'm not sure why I do not see hate. It's possible that my fixation is to become what you behold and so to look away from hate. I want to talk a little bit about you, because our audience today is primarily, I would say, American.
What can I do to make me-- or improve my standard to get there? Why do you think that sort of fixation landed in you like that? I just think to represent your country's a huge honor.
sort of dismantling their job or they're dismantling a friendship or they're dismantling their marriage. And so that became the kind of fixation that was overlaid onto this film. It is basically a film about self-destruction.
And we work really hard to make them new. Fresh seaweed is something I had this fixation about.
depict and drive the space program that was coming up ahead. One of the very earliest visual fixations of artists doing artwork for industry was the Vanguard Satellite. It was round and cute. And it was a showcase for the developing miniaturization of electronics. So, it's often depicted in this lovely translucence. And I think one reason Voyager was so attractive was that its round shape suggested a little Earth,
For a while, I struggled because I was like, oh. I thought it was interesting you brought up the fixation on pipeline today as, I would call it, a scapegoat from, you know, actually doing something
Sometimes there is no cure for the disease. So you talked about the quality of anxiety without fixation on external thing to explain it.
Sometimes there is no cure for the disease. Without? Without the fixation or the obsession with something external to explain it, which I think
So we stretch beyond that kind of collapse or fixation of attention.
often found that because of the interest and the fixation on violence um that the violence became the fence you know that
Now I've plotted reprisal against two things. On the left, it's plotted against fixation time, or how long the eyes stay on a particular word. And on the right, it's plotted against the probability of the eyes regressing back to a word.
That's Iran today. Hence the fixation with wearing a headscarf.
with somebody else. Another anti-pattern is a fixation on job titles.
Related to this pattern bias, is our fixation on what is immediately present to the eyes and minds.
So just for other people kind of interested in pursuing oddball passions and fixations and things like that to their logical extremes,
Yeah. At the GSB, we have this fixation with Navy SEALs.
And that approach has been a whole lot more successful. What I think we are seeing in these two examples is some of the promise of shifting our attention away from our fixation on fuel and beginning to think about spotting the friction that holds our ideas back.
But generally, I think, there's just fixation on finding targeted therapies in, really, quite a narrow range of targets.
Where you present people with a screen that they fixate on, so there's a fixation cross just to make sure they're looking in the right place.
What you're talking about, where somebody always uses the same eye for fixation , and always turns the other, causes the condition, strabismic amblyopia.
If you become, if you use only one eye for fixation and turn in the other, become an amblyopic, then the acuity in one eye goes way down.
And I put in these little boxes indicating where the ads are, and you see no fixations there.
And just one other little-- well, one strategy that we can use to avert fear and lean into uncertainty, to harness this arousal, which is so helpful in moments of challenge, is something called-- to dial back on something called outcome fixation . So in a nutshell, we are in a challenge, like giving a public presentation.
For 1,000 years, Muslims didn't have that very government driven, Marxist, control all elements of your life fixation .
When you're at Trump rally, you're among Roy Moore supporters or something, why is there this fixation on conspiracy theories?
We have lots and lots of names for this instinct. Desire. Attraction. Attachment. Fixation . Disliking. Revulsion. Disgust. Fear.
My dog goes into full squirrel mode, then it's a much louder command to break through his fixation .
two eyes. And your brain then makes that interpretation, "Oh the image is a little different on the two retinas and therefore, it's either located in front or behind the fixation point.î OK?
through space because I have a whole bunch of code. What points? Well, I'm gonna move an approximation of your fixation point, so how you would read it?" Following her curatorial
Lemme just interpret that onto the page." And then it all became really simple. So, the space was code. People were gonna read it so I traced the fixation point through--that's
And, you know, Wall Street makes it tougher, because there's sort of a short-term fixation on profit -- makes it far harder to look out into the distance and see the time when those