You're shaped by what you pay attention to - Sherry Ning
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What you look at is what you worship, what you worship is what you become.
We have whites in our eyes because we care about what other people are looking at. The most universal symbol is the arrow (→) because of how primitive it is: the spear precedes words, alphabets, and compasses. It’s a line with a tip at one end, and it’s enough to imply “LOOK”. Its shape embodies its function—to point, to pierce, to direct. Every road sign, every cursor on a screen, every gesture of a finger uses this prehistoric grammar of attention. To point at something is to make it matter. The Little Schoolmistress, Chardin, 1740 Attention is a vector: there is always a direction to…
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