Welcome to Your World Within Daily.

I'm Eddie Panero.

And in this episode, we're going to talk about focus.

And I'm going to draw some parallels to filmmaking and explain that you only see what you focus on.

Yeah. So one of the first things you learn as a filmmaker or even a YouTube or someone with a DSLR or a Merrillus, and you want that kind of, that cinematic look, right? The Hollywood feel

where there's a sharp focus and the background's kind of blurred out. That's what we associate

with, with, you know, good cinematography. That background blur, the audience knows right to look at.

And so when there's two people talking, it'll zoom in on someone.

It'll focus on someone's face and the other person we blurred out and we'll know, okay, focus on that person.

And then it'll switch and our attention will immediately go to the other person.

Everything else on the screen will kind of have that blur look.

And we don't even realize it's happening a lot of the time,

but that's how we decide to allocate our attention, right?

And I learned not too long ago that that is, it resembles the human eye and how when we look at something, it's sharp and it's

clear, but everything in our peripherals is essentially blurred out. We can see clearly the one

thing we're paying attention to. And I think in a lot of ways, this is reflective of life beyond that. The idea that we can only

see the thing that we are focused on, even when other things are around us, they're just blurred

out. They're in the peripheries.

I talked a while ago about that time I, you know, a run I'd done, you know, an eight-mile run,

I'd done so many times. But one time recently, like within the past month, you know, I got

injured and I walked back. And the things I saw, I saw, you know,

beautiful modern homes that I ran by millions of times that I'd never noticed. And I just thought,

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