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On Looking - Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes written by Alexandra Horowitz performed by Alexandra Horowitz on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781442359321
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Nature
Duration:  540 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Alexandra Horowitz
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From the author of the #1 New York Times mega-bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive our surroundings. You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the..

distance, and right in front of you. In reading these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses.

The hum of the fluorescent lights; the ambient noise in the room; the feeling of the chair against your legs or back; your tongue touching the roof of your mouth; the tension you are holding in your shoulders or jaw; the constant hum of traffic or a distant lawnmower; the blurred view of your own shoulders and torso in your peripheral vision; a chirp of a bug or whine of a kitchen appliance.

Hidden in Plain Sight begins with inattention. It is not meant to help you focus on your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask. It is not about how to avoid falling asleep at a lecture or during your grandfather’s tales of boyhood misadventures.

Rather, it is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived “ordinary.”

Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities—taking a walk around the block—we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives.

So turn off the phone and portable electronics and get into the real world, where you’ll find there are worlds within worlds within worlds.

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