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Hey, welcome back and thanks for listening in today. So I'm a little extra kind of anxious and excited about today's content because it's got a little risk and reward

element to it. The risk is that I will not do a good job explaining to you what the gestalt

effect is, in which case it will not make much sense to you and even the two applications

that I packaged up to share just won't hit home. And there is

definitely some risk of that, because this gestalt psychology is very old. It's at least 100 years old.

It was developed by some guys who live on the other side of the planet. And it is largely the

study of the way the brain interprets visual inputs. In fact, the argument is

there are natural things that happen, subconscious, instantaneous things that happen as you

observe different elements of the world around you. At some point, you can decide if you want to

keep observing that thing or continue to think on it,

but in those instant early stages, what happens is natural and oftentimes unavoidable.

It's not about in those first stages whether you're a good person or a bad person,

it's just the way that the brain has been designed to work.

And if you choose to believe in what is sometimes called the Gestalt theory, it will have a direct effect on how you visually present yourself to the world, and on the viewing side, it might help you understand why you have certain instant impulses that you could not previously explain. Now, maybe I've already lost you, or maybe you

are very clear on the challenge if the theory and effect is related to visual things and how you

interpret them, and yet this podcast is purely audio, I've got my work cut out for me. But how about this?

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