Pushkin One of the greatest lies our minds tell us is that we're soaking up everything we see in here.
But that's simply not true.
Our ability to pay attention to the world around us is much more limited than we think.
We're missing out on way more than we realize.
Okay, thank you again for coming into the studio.
So you're going to be doing a classic experiment in psychology where you're going to be counting the number of basketball passes.
I'm testing some of the students in my residential college at Yale on an experiment that's now become famous in the history of modern psychology.
There's a decent chance you may have taken a version of it yourself.
So there's gonna be six players, three people on the white team and three people on a black team.
And your task is you have to count the number of passes that the people on the white team make.
Make sense?
Yeah.
Okay.
Two, three, four, five.
Since the teams are crisscrossing and the two balls are constantly moving,
there's a lot to keep track of.
Even so, most students are able to count the passes pretty accurately.
14, 15.
Awesome.
That's correct.