On Looking

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On Looking

Author	: Alexandra Horowitz
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
File Size	: 23,9 Mb
Release Date	: 15 April 2014
ISBN	: 9781439191262
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 3/5 (24 users)

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On Looking begins with inattention. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary.' Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities like taking a walk around the block, we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives.

On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz

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On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz

You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. In marshalling your attention to these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that

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On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz

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