I always admire people who marvel at things that anyone could have noticed but didn’t.*
Brian Eno

The experience of touching something timeless can shock a person out of the rhythm of ephemeral experience in daily life.**
Bina Venkataraman

We all notice something more than others do,
It’s how we provide our lives with purpose and direction and delight, but there are
some who seem to have widened their “bandwidth” exponentially –
They enrich my life and motivate me to notice more;
A lot of this is about time and effort and curiosity,^ but if there is anything
magical about becoming a better noticer, it is that everything
is useful to our original purpose and direction and delight.

We won’t be the first to have noticed what catches our attention, and,
Hopefully, because we have turned our gaze towards it,
We won’t be the last.

Everybody’s idea seems obvious to them … maybe what obvious to me is amazing to someone else? … We’re clearly bad judges of our own creations. We should put them out there and let the world decide. Are you holding back something that seems too obvious to share?^^

*Brian Eno’s A Year With Swollen Appendices;
**Bina Venkataraman’s The Optimist’s Telescope;
^All of which can be worked on.
^^Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah Or No.