It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Two people can stand in front of the same thing and come away with different worlds. What you notice is shaped by what you are looking for, what you already believe, and how much attention you have left at that hour. Looking is cheap and mostly automatic. Seeing takes a pause long enough for the thing to be itself rather than a category you filed it under.

Take something familiar this week, a street you walk daily or a person you think you have figured out, and give it one honest minute. Ask what is actually there, not what you expect to find.