Things I know to be true – What you see is what you get

There’s a term in the IT world and it’s WYSIWYG, it’s been used since the 1990’s and refers to the design of online systems and it means that what developers see when they’re designing something is the same as what the user will see on the finished screen. And it’s a perfect analogy for my second ‘truth’. We are all different. Yes, I know that’s stating the obvious, but I’m not just referring to how we look, where we live, what we do in our lives or how we think. I’m also referring to what we see, both practically and spiritually. It’s very easy to get caught up in the illusion that what you ‘see’ with your eyes is actually what’s out ‘there’ in the world, but the eyes and brain don’t actually work that way. There’s an old experiment that did the rounds years ago and it was designed to demonstrate this in a simple, practical way. The video formed part of an experiment by Harvard University called The Selective Attention Test and it was designed to see whether people really do see what goes on around them. If you want to give it go yourself you can see it at the end of this post. Another simple way of testing it out is when you’re driving. Have you ever fallen into that state where you suddenly arrive somewhere but can’t remember what you passed along the way? And what about if you were a passenger in the car gazing out of passenger side window, would y...
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