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Examples of Tunnel vision in Real life and their significance

Welcome to the second article of my Blog. As I said, every choice that we make in real life is based on tunnel vision. For example, eating fast food like a burger or pizza. The reason we order it is that we love it.  Imagine what would happen if our brain has the superpower to know what the fast food would do to your heart even before you order it. You would start feeling the pain of a heart attack which you would feel, 40 years in the future, due to the fat which we are eating in the cheese.  A pretty ugly scenario, although it would mean you would make the right choice almost every time, isn’t it? Every time you are about to make a wrong choice, your brain would tell you that it is wrong and why. Our brain would become a constant battlefield due conflict between what our wild side needs or wants and what is ideally needed to stay healthy. Our brain would then be a constant source of anxiety and probably in no time, we would go mad. This example shows us how...

Tunnel vision, What it is and why is it bad?

As the publication of my book comes closer, the first question which most elders ask me after reading the heading “How the Homo Sapiens Blundered” has been “What is the number one blunder according to you?” The answer to this question is not straightforward. If it was, I would probably not have enough matter to write a 600 plus book. However, there is one very important blunder which stands apart. And the entire book is probably dedicated to analyzing how to make us aware of it and how to try and correct it. This is “ Complete apathy towards sacrifice of anything that is green, for myriad reasons from aesthetics to greed to complete insanity ” This can be considered, one of the serious contenders of being the number one blunder. Indeed, not something that the usual scientific community would agree with. For them, the number one blunder would probably be “Burning of Fossil Fuels, or probably building the entire economy on something which pollutes the atmosphere...