Every day we observe things that we scarcely notice. Our brains automatically attend to the important and ignore the incidental. From the rush of incoming stimuli, they filter out the repetitious and insubstantial, allowing only the "important" information to pass. But sometimes, even the most trivial details may turn out to be significant.
Take this quiz to find out how much you have been observing.
1. In which direction do pieces travel around a Monopoly board - clockwise or counterclockwise?
2. What is the lowest number on an FM radio dial?
3. On a standard keyboard, over which number do you find %?
4. Do books have their even-numbered pages on the left or the right?
5. Which way does the red diagonal slash go in the international "No Parking" or "No Smoking" sign?
We live in a world where we are substituting quantity for quality, clutter for information, complexity for intelligence, laborious repetition for due diligence.
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What Would Walt Do?
Check out this 148 page e-book written by D. M. Miller, a project manager during the construction of Walt Disney World from 1968 to 1971. It chronicles the experiences of the young Florida engineer, whose team as responsible for the quality control of all construction materials and methods on the project. In the book, Miller suggests that Walt Disney World may be the highest quality construction project ever built.
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