Reptilian brain · Threat Response
Orienting Reflex
Automatic turning of attention toward novelty or movement; it habituates to repeated stimuli, which is why interfaces keep changing what moves.
An everyday example
Eyes pulled to the animated badge, the blinking cursor, the new red dot.
What it can cost you
Attention captured by whatever is designed to move, not by what matters.
Warning signs
- I looked at the thing that moved.
- I forgot what I came for.
One thing to do
Decide what you came to look at before looking; treat motion as a request to be ignored.
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