{"id":771,"date":"2023-08-26T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2023-08-26T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T10:41:49","slug":"familiarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/familiarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiarity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember, \u2018What we give our Attention to matters.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life\u2019s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention a book titled \u2018Willful Blindness<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 – Why we Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril<\/em> by Margaret Heffernan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book tries to understand, why after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say how could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don’t? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers, and white-collar criminals, businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures even crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embedded within our self-definition, we build relationships, institutions, cities, systems, and cultures that, in reaffirming our values, blind us to alternatives. This is where our willful blindness originates: in the innate human desire for familiarity, for likeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt from \u2018Willful Blindness\u2019 by Margaret Heffernan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.mheffernan.com\/book-wilfulblindness.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Namaste!<\/p>\n

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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember, \u2018What we give our Attention to matters.\u2019 Our life\u2019s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we   →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-human-pscyhology","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}