What are the art of cognitive blindspots?

The art of cognitive blindspots is like wearing glasses that hide parts of your view, you don’t even realize something’s missing.

Imagine you’re playing hide-and-seek in a big room. You look all around, but you always miss the person hiding behind the couch, not because they're sneaky, but because you never check there. That's a cognitive blindspot, it’s when your brain skips over something important without you noticing.

Think of your brain as a puzzle solver. Most of the time, it puts pieces together really well. But sometimes, it misses a piece entirely, like when you’re so focused on finding the red ball that you don’t see the blue one right next to it. That’s a cognitive blindspot in action.

Sometimes your brain is just too busy or too sure of what it already knows. Like when you wear mismatched socks and never notice, until someone points it out! Your brain skips over that detail because it's used to seeing one sock, not two different ones.

Cognitive blindspots are everywhere, in games, in school, even in big decisions. But once you know they’re there, you can start looking for them too!