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Ross Annels's avatar

Thanks for this Peter - paying attention- really paying attention- is a rare thing. In my teaching I talk about learning from my daughter who is on the autism spectrum- she is very good at paying attention to a task she is focussed on with all her senses - she looks, she listens, she feels, she smells ... and she becomes really good at the things that she focuses on.

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Alex Moseley's avatar

I like where this is heading, and for me, the file is the perfect example. As a lefty, I found the handedness of the file an obstacle to learning its rudiments. I expected the file to accommodate me, and it didn’t. Once I developed the mental model of the file as a handed tool, though, the handedness of it actually became an invitation to pay more attention. (I see this as part of the gift of being left-handed - we get to see some design assumptions that most people cannot.)

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