Seeing VS Observing
I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction. 'When I hear you give your reasons,' I remarked, 'the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled, until you explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours.'
'Quite so,' he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an arm-chair. 'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.'
'Frequently.'
'How often?'
'Well, some hundreds of times.'
'Then how many are there?'
'How many! I don't know.'
'Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.'
Notes:
Sherlock Holmes explains the difference between taking your world for granted and observing it scientifically.
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Triples
Seeing, Observing, and Mindfulness
Childhood is Naturally Mindful > Example/Illustration > Seeing VS ObservingMost of us sleepwalk through life having lost our childhood sense of attention, Sherlock Holmes explains the difference between just seeing the world and observing it.