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Finding the Courage to Change

Betsy Jordyn, Windermere Design Contributor- Partner

The biggest challenge with change is that we have to give up the familiar and enter into the terrain of the unknown. And this is uncomfortable. For this reason, many of us would rather complain, than change. It is easier to talk about what is going wrong, rather than take the action to do what is right.

Instead of looking at change as a massive mountain to climb, consider what it looks like to take just one step. Have one difficult conversation. Take one small risk. When you practice reaching out and asking for what you want and then taking the necessary actions, you will find yourself propelled on the path you wish to go.

Stop wishing and get moving. Courage isn’t about being without fear. It is acting in spite of it.

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Last week we asked – Why do we stay in situations that do not benefit us? Sense of comfort with the familiar; lack of vision for other alternatives; consequences of change doesn’t feel worth it; fear of upsetting others and burning bridges; lack of courage to make needed changes.

The majority of you responded “sense of comfort with the familiar” at 37%. “Lack of courage to make needed changes” followed closely at 26%. Only 3% of you cited “lack of vision for other alternatives.

Orlando Predators - Coach Bret Munsey as the team’s new head coach

The Arena Football League’s Orlando Predators is proud to introduce former Preds player and assistant coach Bret Munsey as the team’s new head coach.

The Winter Park native spent three seasons with the Predators from 2003-05, where he served as secondary coach and director of player personnel before becoming head coach of the Philadelphia Soul. Munsey led the Soul to a 35-20 overall mark in three playoff seasons (2006-08), including a 13-3 record and ArenaBowl title in 2008.

Munsey returns to the indoor game after spending the past two seasons as director of player personnel in the United Football League, where he currently holds that position with the Virginia Destroyers.

While in Orlando as an assistant coach under Fran Papasedero and Jay Gruden, the Preds went a combined 34-19 with Munsey on staff.

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Inattentional blindness

Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is the phenomenon of not being able to perceive things that are in plain sight. It is caused by an absence of attention to the unseen object and is clear evidence of the importance of attention for perceiving. Without attention we are as if functionally blind. It is closely related to change blindness, which refers to our inability to perceive changes to features in scenes to which we are not attending. It is also related to the Attentional Blink, a phenomenon which occurs when we are searching for two particular target items in a rapidly presented list of items. We often fail to perceive the second target if it occurs between 150 and 400 msec after the first. This also is due to our failure to attend to the second target while attention is absorbed by the first one.

The term inattentional blindness was coined by Arien Mack and Irvin Rock in 1992. It was used as the title of Mack and Rock's book published by MIT Press in 1998. The book describes the discovery of Inattentional Blindness and the procedure used for revealing it.

The best-known study demonstrating inattentional blindness is the Invisible gorilla test, which was conducted by Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University. Their study, a revised version of earlier studies conducted by Ulric Neisser, Neisser and Becklen, 1975, asked subjects to watch a short video in which two groups of people (wearing black and white t-shirts) pass a basketball around. The subjects are told to either count the number of passes made by one of the teams or to keep count of bounce passes vs. aerial passes. In different versions of the video a woman walks through the scene carrying an umbrella, or wearing a full gorilla suit.^[1] After watching the video the subjects are asked if they saw anything out of the ordinary take place. In most groups, 50% of the subjects did not report seeing the gorilla. The failure to perceive the gorilla or the woman carrying an umbrella is attributed to the failure to attend to it while engaged in the difficult task of counting the number of passes of the ball. These results indicate that the relationship between what is in one's visual field and perception is based much more significantly on attention than was previously thought.

Another experiment was carried out by Steve Most, Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris, and Brian Scholl. They had objects moving randomly on a computer screen. Participants were instructed to attend to the black objects and ignore the white, or vice versa. After several trials, a red cross unexpectedly appeared and traveled across the display, remaining on the computer screen for five seconds. The results of the experiment showed that even though the cross was distinctive from the black and white objects both in color and shape, about a third of participants missed it. They had found that people may be attentionally tuned to certain perceptual dimensions, such as brightness or shape.

The basic Simons study was re-used on British television as a public safety advert designed to point out the potential dangers to cyclists caused by inattentional blindness in motorists. In the advert the gorilla is replaced by a moonwalking bear.

NASA conducted an experiment in a flight simulator in which commercial pilots were tested to see if they would notice distractions on a runway during simulated landings.^[2] Those who were trained pilots did not notice and landed directly on top of the distraction 1/4 of the time, while untrained pilots didn't know what to expect of a typical landing and thus saw the distraction.^[2]