A famous Chinese fable anchored on a story of a person who was caught snatching a big wad of cash in a busy market in broad daylight.  When asked what gave him the gumption to think he would be able to escape snatching something in front of dozens of people, he murmured an excuse, " I didn’t notice the people.  I only saw the money."

Apparently, he had a big blind spot, but the morale of the story is that we all have blind spots, even on many ocassions where the pretty obvious even fails to be noted.  As humans, we obviously have the ability to convince ourselves on something we most like to believe, and may ignore things that are not to our liking.

One of the things i have learned, and the reason probably why ocassionally I can be more effective is to be able to separate the emotions from the logic - something Sherlock Holmes said was necessary for detective work, but also very important in making decisions in business.  How often are we blinded to think somebody we like is more capable than we think he is, and somebody who has displeased us in some way is being not looked objectively as to what he is capable? 

A person who puts money into a blackjack game, and win 15 games, and lost 21 games may even have the impression he is winning, because he may more likely remember the games he won than those he lost.

What are your blind spots?  What are the things you fail to see? Sometimes are you too emotionally connected on the outcome to be objective?  These are things we constantly need to ask ourselves in order to insure that we are not biased or subjective in the way we do and make decisions. 

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