The more we learn about the eye the more we understand how different it is from a lens. A lens sees what is within it’s focus. An eye sees what it has learned. Yes. Your eyes see what you have learned. The “minds eye” catchphrase makes all kinda sense. I love learning this kinda weird stuff because it ALL matters to performance. I love seeing more so I can learn more. I love learning more so I can help more…
Want to increase your line of sight? Want to see more details and not miss the big picture? Want to see the melody line and a thousand nuances? Want to see more? Want to help more?
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Your eye only sees what it has learned to look for. This is why masters say things like, “I don’t know, the game just slowed down,” or “I saw something on the financials that just didn’t add up even though it balanced out fine, something was missing.”
Masters see more because they’ve learned more. Who knew your eyes were so much more complex than a simple, camera lens. He knew, that’s who.
Today, improve your eyesight; learn more..
BUILT TO LEAD 
Toto this is awesome and I have an example to illustrate.
Last June I took a weekend trip to N. Michigan to play golf with my son and his wife’s father & brother in the Treetops — a remote, beautifully wooded resort. A highlight of the trip was hanging out with my son’s father-in-law, Pete. Pete is a master birdwatcher — being at the Treetops for him was like an astronomer going to the clear night sky of Antartica to look at the stars. By ear, Pete told me what kind of bird we were hearing and then he showed me where to look to see it. A vivid enclyopedia of Ornithology opened up as this master bird-watcher showed me how to see what had always been there.
God thank you for Pete. Help us be more like Leonardo Da Vinci and cultivate the curiousity to see things that we have missed all along. Help us NOT value just seeing the old things. Help us VALUE learning to see things in a new way. And give us the courage & humility to ask others how they see them — our team, our spouse, our families, our friends, and our enemies.
Help us have eyes to see.