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  MacSheikh // April 23, 2008 at 5:51 am

  Lol! I actually got the answer correct but was howling with laughter when they mentioned (and i saw) the moon-walking bear! Great stuff!

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  united states of consciousness // April 23, 2008 at 7:30 am

  Haven’t we all missed out on the moonwalking bear at some point in our lives?

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  Bill // April 23, 2008 at 6:42 pm

  If I were a cyclist, I would get out of the way of the much larger 4 ton truck that’s about to run my ass over. Survival of the fittest rules the planet. The earth is not going to look out for the skydiver, it’s the other way around too. Life,… proceed with caution and be aware of your vulnerabilities. Your life is ultimately your own responsibility. If you cross my path on your bicycle and there is no stop sign, be aware that you are about to become part of the pavement or landscape. Sorry, but that’s life.

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  MJ // April 23, 2008 at 7:01 pm

  Bill, I think you missed the point of the video. In a word… AWARENESS

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  Bill // April 23, 2008 at 7:53 pm

  I didn’t missed the point, I input my own spin on it, making a joke. I have kids and people zoom at high speeds past or house, a 25 mph zone. It pisses is off. However, there is a little truth to my poking fun. Joggers tend to use the street instead of a pristine level sidewalk. Last year, a young female driver was applying her eye make up, swerving onto the shoulder of the road where the idiot was jogging, instead of the sidewalk on the other side of the road. He narrowly missed become road tar. All of his awareness would not save his ass. So awareness is an isolated moment where you may still be vulnerable, ,now matter how much you try. But the point of the video was actually not metaphoric, it was a cyclist warning. Feel free to make it into a revelation, but I don’t think that it will help you as much as you think. Staying focused will get the job done. being aware of the bird outside your window when your working can make a great distraction, but in this world, it’s productivity that counts…unless you’re a priest. So I really couldn’t care if I was not aware enough to see the bear, I got the task done, and it was not finding the bear. If you saw the bear and counted 12 passes, then you lost the game. Guess what happens when the quarterback is ‘aware’ of the cheerleaders?

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  Larry Glover // April 24, 2008 at 6:40 am

  And guess what happens to General Motors when they don’t foresee the price of gas escalating as it is? I’d suggest productivity counts… only until it kills you.

  Then you might wish you’d spent more time with your kids or wife… being… being aware of life. The challenge is, that since we all see principally only what we expect to see… how do we take our blinders off and see what is really important to our thrive-ability.

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  Bill // April 24, 2008 at 7:23 am

  Larry,… exactly! I wanted someone to write in to show that what I wrote had an interesting anecdote, but was 1) actually a blind man and 2) going to lead to a heart attack. The bird at your window does count and pushing productivity until we bleed will be our end. [However, those dumb joggers really should use the side walk

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  Mea Culpa // April 25, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  What a great idea for an ad campaign. Loved it.

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  Danny // May 16, 2008 at 1:29 pm

  Interesting…this is actually a recreation, with better passing, of the video from a psychological experiment (Simons & Chabris 1999) on inattentional blindness–that is, we’ve been instructed to watch the white team passing, so we just don’t register anything in black. The study is at http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/simons%20(1999)%20gorillas%20in%20our%20midst.%20sustained%20inattentional%20blindness%20for%20dynamic%20events.pdf and the video at http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html (Java, FYI).

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