How obsessing over problems makes us miss solutions: diet, starups, changing the world. Inattentional blindness.

What happens when we become so fixated on our flaws that we miss the strengths hiding in plain sight? For years, I've watched people struggle with change not because they weren't trying hard enough, but because they were looking in the wrong direction. The science of "inattentional blindness" explains why we miss critical solutions when we're hyper-focused on problems. Just like participants who fail to spot a gorilla walking across a basketball court because they're ...