The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons Summary
Overview of The Invisible Gorilla
Discover why Harvard psychologists' famous "gorilla experiment" became a New York Times bestseller that changed how we understand perception. Daniel Gilbert calls it "an owner's manual for the human mind!" - revealing why we miss what's right in front of us.
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Ключевые выводы
What We Miss When We Think We're Paying Attention
Picture a person in a gorilla suit walking through a basketball game, stopping to thump their chest at the camera for nine full seconds. Impossible to miss, right? Yet half of all viewers fail to see it completely. This isn't a trick of lighting or clever editing-it's how your brain actually works. When police officer Kenny Conley chased a suspect over a fence, he ran directly past fellow officers brutally beating another cop just feet away. He genuinely didn't see it. Prosecutors didn't believe him. A jury convicted him of perjury. He lost his career. The truth? His brain was doing exactly what yours does every single day-filtering out the "unexpected" to focus on a single task. This phenomenon, called inattentional blindness, reveals something unsettling: we experience far less of our visual world than we believe. Commander Scott Waddle looked through his submarine's periscope before surfacing and somehow missed a nearly 200-foot fishing vessel directly above him. Nine people died in the collision. Airline pilots landing in simulators have completely overlooked jets parked on their runways. When world-class violinist Joshua Bell performed incognito in a Washington D.C. subway station with his $3 million Stradivarius, only seven of over a thousand commuters stopped to listen. We don't ignore beauty-we simply don't process what we're not expecting to encounter. Your attention isn't a spotlight illuminating everything in view. It's more like a laser pointer, and everything outside that narrow beam might as well not exist.
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"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
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"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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