Some of you may not understand.  I love my job.  Every day brings with it new challenges and a constant drive to change for the better.  To keep up with the environment, you start to acquire new skills either by focusing on the need to develop them or by inheriting the skill through some form of mental osmosis.  This latter form of metamorphosis has started to lead me down the path of noticing things.  Maybe the following awareness test will help to explain a little.

If you didn’t see it, thank the loving scotoma wherein you simply don’t see that which you’re not looking for. This ability to “notice” things even applies to that which isn’t there but ought to be as in my cell phone adventure where a seemingly simple solution to something just wasn’t there.

It’s getting worse for me. Today I saw a simple advertisement in a gas station regarding a bluetooth headset. There was a picture of the headset next to a picture of a model wearing the headset. Actually, she wasn’t wearing it at all. She was wearing a completely different model. Out of all the things to notice, that’s what I picked up on.

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