Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm
Possibly the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon. While in college your instructor taught us about what they called a Mental Scatoma, or filter that causes us to spontaneously find what we are looking for. They then told us there were more yellow cars in the world than we thought.
Interestingly everyone in class the next day was talking about how the number of yellow cars seemed to increase, some believed they really had & were weirded out by it. In reality our minds were instructed to notice yellow more often, so every time they were around we noticed them due to our mind being conditioned to seek them out.
This was taught to us to understand why successful individuals always seem to have more opportunities fall into their laps. It was simply a mind shift that needed to happen for many in the class to be able to see those opportunities around them to take their shot at success.
That lesson changed many lives & students for the rest of college that had taken that class were amazed at how often opportunity had increased, though it was likely they just now noticed those opportunities more often because they were now aware of them.