Uh what's the link between vision and motivation and how can we leverage that in order to better reach our goals ? So , you know , we started thinking about what are the goals that are most important to people that they struggle with the most .
Where are they relative to the competition ? What's happening in their peripheral vision ? What's going on on the side , who's behind them , who's in front of them , they probably have this like master sense , this master visual plan at any point in time .
If people can do that , we have them say out loud , what is it that's captured your attention ? And of course , sometimes something in the periphery like movement captures our gaze and , and we are pulled there for , for an instant , but then we can refocus up again and adopt that narrowed attention . Now , one of the first studies that we did was was teach that strategy and juxtapose or compare it against a group that we said , just look around naturally .
You can tell them about what the New York road runners runners are doing and just using the same language that I just use with you , right ? Imagine that there's a spotlight shining just on a target , choose , choose something up ahead the stop sign two blocks up that you can , you can just see and , you know , imagine that you have blinders on so that you're not really paying attention to the people that are passing by or the buildings or the garbage cans or the , or the trucks that are on the road , you know , tune those out and focus in on that target until you hit it and then choose another one , right , Sort of recalibrate , choose the next goal . And so we would test like , can people do that ?
Yeah , those are impressive differences uh as a consequence of narrowing visual attention , a couple of questions about the actual practice of narrowing attention . Is there any indication of whether or not subjects um are constantly updating their visual attention ? So for instance , if uh let's say the goal line is uh in view , literally from the beginning , I could imagine just holding visual attention on the , on the goal line .
