You think You are observant...... Think again.

Do you know how our eyes can play tricks on us, whether we realize it or not. Our eyes aren't always as reliable as we think, and sometimes the consequences can be serious.

How does this happen? How do intelligent, conscientious people miss what's right in front of them?

It has to do with the way our brains process information.
It all comes down to the fact that, at any given time, our brains are bombarded by all kinds of sights, sounds and smells, many happening all at the same time, and it's impossible to consciously think about them all at once. So the brain is designed to filter out the information it thinks is unnecessary for the task at hand.

But sometimes there's an error in that filtering process.

It happens to all of us at one time or another. Think it couldn't happen to you? Don't be so sure.

It has to do with our emotional brains that really, it turns out, run a lot more of our behavior than we like to acknowledge. We're pretty irrational, there are many ways our brains can play tricks on us.

First, we have them look at some photos. It's a test to see if they'll see what's truly in front of them, or will their brains trick them? 

 What do you think about this one? Take a good look at this picture. What do you see? Hmm.. immediately thought it was a woman's hip, but -- and just as soon as I thought that, my mind tried to see it as something else. It looks like she's coming out of the shower and she has, like, velvet pants that she's pulling on.                                             So what are we really looking at?  

It's a famous shoe ad. This is the Via Uno sandals. That's just two feet side by side. Those are the heels.
So why do we see something titillating when it's just part of a foot? it's because the brain is always on the lookout for something it can easily recognize.

So the way the brain works is that we have models in our brain of the way the world is , and then, as the data comes in, we force it to fit the model.

What do you see when you look at this? thought I was looking at maybe an man / Woman's Face. Do you know what it really is?

Grilled cheese sandwich . You can't help but not see the face. Because to see a face you only need three data points: the eyes, the nose and the mouth. And even a grilled cheese sandwich -- which, by the way, sold for $28,000 on eBay. It is now in a Las Vegas casino. You can go see it. I've seen it. It's under glass.

For instance, what if someone wanted to exploit our tendency to see patterns for religious purposes? What do you see in this image?

Did you see a distorted Mother Teresa . Atleast Once I point out that it looks like Mother Teresa , most of us sees it, too. It's a cinnamon bun . It's a cinnamon bun discovered by a Tennessee baker in 1996 , who has since put it on a T-shirt. You can get the T-shirt of it. And so it -- that -- but a lot of people flocked to his bakery shop. This was in the news. It was a big story for a while.

here are some of the other pictures which could be misleading by the brain

And if we're able to fool ourselves, it should be no surprise that others can fool us, too.

This is how con artists operate. That's how we get suckered into things. We're just talked into seeing the world in a different way. Go!

It has nothing to do with intelligence and smarts and education. It has to do with our emotional brains that really, it turns out, run a lot more of our behavior than we like to acknowledge.  We're pretty irrational.

lets see how our brain can be so focused on one task, it will block out what's right in front of us.Watch the following Video.. There are four players dressed in white shirts and four in black shirts. count the number of passes of the four white-shirted team players, and you're going to count them out loud.

So how many did you count? 18.  Twenty five?  Twenty six? Yeah, okay, great.

we were so busy counting passes, most missed something right before their eyes.

Did anybody see anything unusual in the middle of this scene?  So would it surprise you to learn that there was a gorilla who walked right across the middle, spun around and waved to you all?

It's inattentional blindness research. It's important research because what it shows is that our brains are finely tuned. When you're instructed to do so, to focus on one thing, you're likely then to miss something really obvious.

And what happens when you're so focused on texting or talking on the phone while you're driving? You miss the big picture.

And there are many ways you can miss the big picture. It's all about how our brains focus. Consider this: A driver crashes into a cyclist and swears they never saw, even though the cyclist was clearly visible. The driver's focus was on avoiding other cars; since she wasn't expecting to see a Cycle, brain blocked it out.

The take-home message from this kinda research is that we really need to be pretty skeptical and cautious about what we think is true because, often, we are deceived and even self-deceived by the way our belief systems work. So as we make our way through the world, observing what's around us…Remember our brains can be sending us wrong information.

So the next time you're positive about what you think you saw, take a moment to reconsider, what you think you see is not always what you get.

 much of the research into the phenomenon of change blindness and inattentional blindness was developed by pyschologist, Daniel Simons. To learn more, here is a link to Simons' and Christopher Chabris' book: www.theinvisiblegorilla.com

Sucess is made by Bold Hearted

Every person in their life hit a situation " I lost a presious thing in life" ............ " I lost ...."  most people take their life forward thinking of what they have lost in the past...

It' true and necessary to remember the path which we walked through the life, but dwelling on it will not bring it back....

Each and every person passes through a painful situation of losing something in life, it could be a person you love or a carrer path which you often dream of or even the life achievements you loose during the course.
When ever we come across such situations we keep on dwelling over them instead of moving forward and achieve great heights in life.

When You move forward considering whats left not thinking about what you have lost will make you inspiring and successful. One such success story I came across these days is about a successful emerging personality is "Alex Zanardi"


Alex Zanardi born in 1966 had a great life and successful career as Formula one racer.

He begun his career as a kart racer winning many major competitions till 1990. He had been a successful Formula one racing career from 1991  until year 2001

 



In the year 2001 at a most competitive race Alex met with an unfortunate and terrible accident which apparently looked like an end of the world to many who watched Alex.

 


Every thing which seem perfect till that day was shattered. In the accident he lost both his legs above the knee and barely survived after loosing three-quarters of his blood volume.

The Life before the accident was picture perfect which seem to come to an end until he return with renewed strength in heart and his new pair of Prosthetic legs just two years after the crash.

                                         
                                                    

 He competed in professional Touring car championships and then took up a career as a hand biking athlete. Winning  a GOLD medal in para Olympics in London 2012 is his recent achievement.


                             
                             


                    



Proving the life has more in store than whats been lost... Life doesn't come without failures ... Every one have their failures and losses.... Picking up from the point and moving FORWARD is LIFE....


Have a great life.. Face your challenges and Losses with Bold heart.

 

Choice....

Not liking the food you have daily????.....How about some pizza? No??? Ok....... Pasta? No?? .. How about Taco? Not in taco mood today? ... ok.. Trying this Mexican Food? No again? No probs.. we have more choice..     Hmmmmmmm.. chinise??????? Burgersssssss???????? Ok.. lets try Indian.. J     South Indian Food? Naaaaa??? North Indian? Junk food mood? ... ... ...   You can have any of these... or try out little from all... But.. They have No choice..       They just need some food to survive...   Think of them next time you throw the cafeteria food saying, its not tasty!! Think of them next time you say ... Roti here is too hard to eat.. Please DO NOT WASTE food... Its not a Joke

When you have some more spare time... check this link for more information on Food Scarcity Research Material

Religious ritual help feeding homeles and orphans

I found this rather educating editorial in a Local News paper....

Hair offered to gods by Indian women end up as 3,000 pounds extensions in UK...
Temple hair, which are offered by thousands of Indian women and men every day as a gift to Lord Venkateswara - the presiding deity, has already found its way to hundreds of British salons where it is sold in the form of real hair extensions costing up to 3,000 pounds a time.

The Hindu temple of Tirumala Venkateswara on the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh where, Hindu devotes offer their hair, is is also the starting place and principal provider for an astonishing industry, one that has seduced celebrities in Europe and America, and those rich enough to follow them. Temple officials argue that, unless they sell the hair, they would simply dispose of it. The profit from the hair collected at the temples, last year an estimated 70 million pounds, is spent on orphanages and hospitals. 

The trade in human hair is booming. One leading manufacturer boasts that horde of celebrities, including Mischa Barton, Eva Longoria and Frankie Sandford of The Saturdays, have used its products. Fans of extensions, the appeal of human hair is obvious - it both looks and feels better than the synthetic additions made famous by stars such as Jordan and Britney Spears. Moreover, the quality of Indian hair, which is strong and has for the most part never been subjected to Western shampoos, is known to be unusually good. It is safe to say that the temple makes millions from the piles of thick black locks. Yet the women who once possessed the hair - many of them peasants - receive not a penny, donating their hair, instead, as a religious sacrifice.

The shaving ceremony and the sale of hair is not limited to this one holy site, but Tirumala Venkateswara attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims in a single day and is by far the dominant temple in the trade. There are 18 shaving halls, all of them vast, and so big are the crowds that women and young girls can wait in the queue for up to five hours. 650 barbers sit in lines on concrete floor, deftly tying up into ponytails the hair of women seated in front of them. Small children being carried by their mothers can be heard whimpering. They too are candidates for tonsuring - the shaving of the head as a sign of religious devotion. With a few expert sweeps of a razor, each head is shaved smooth and is then doused with water, washing away any blood caused by nicks from the razor.

The average woman's head yields about 10oz of hair, which is worth about 210 pounds Most of the women seemed stunned, their hands patting at a scalp that minutes before had been covered in glossylocks. Then in a flash they are ushered away and the next candidate sits down. Often, as they wait for their turn, the women's faces are impassive, their lips pressed shut, as though trying not to cry.

"For poor rural women, their hair is their only vanity. They have saved up to make a once-in-a-lifetime journey. Thousands have made an oath to their gods - they may have asked to be blessed with a child or for a good harvest," the Daily Mail quoted Mayoor Balsara, chief executive of India's largest exporter of human hair, Sona Devi Trading Company, as saying. "Should their wish be fulfilled, they offer their most precious possession as a sign of gratitude," Balsara said. It is not just rural women who offer their hair to Hindu gods. The trend has been customised for well-educated, professional women from cities too. Instead of submitting to a full tonsure, they can donate a mere three strands to the temple.

Baskets filled with hair are collected every six hours and stored in a vast warehouse where it is piled knee deep. The hair, strong and healthy, has never been dyed or subjected to anything more abrasive than coconut oil and herbal soap. Sometimes it has never been cut. The temple then auctions off the hair - even taking online bids - to exporters around the globe. Mayoor Balsara transports the hair in fibre sacks by truck to Bengaluru, 150 miles away. "We buy hair in metric tons.A ton represents 3,000 women," Balsara said.

Balsara buys about 50 tons a year and ships it round the world. India exports an estimated 2,000 tons a year. The best - or longest - hair will fetch at least 350 pounds per pound. In his factories the hair is washed by hand in giant baths. Then the hair is laboriously pulled through long beds of spikes by hand to smooth it before being tied into neat bundles of 200 strands each. The hair is then carefully packed into cardboard boxes and flown to Nepi in Italy where the pigment is removed, a process that sees the hair soaked in rows of small white baths for up to 20 days. Great Lengths International, a leading manufacturer, supplies 1,300 salons in Britain alone, selling its products as 'ethical hair extensions' - ethical because the source of the hair is known. After the bundles of hair have been coloured, polymer bonds, which mimic the molecular structure of real hair, are attached to them. The bonds will be used to fix the strands to the customer's head.

"'There are no official global statistics but it's fair to say that hair has become a commodity as precious as gold, diamonds or oil. Some top salons order up to 100,000 pounds worth of hair a year," Philip Sharp, UK managing director of Great Lengths, said. The company said that European hair is too thin in diameter for the process; Chinese hair, meanwhile, is too thick and rigid for use with European clients.

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