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Re:To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Coll... by imglorp on Monday April 28, 2025 @09:42AM (#43821458)
"Target fixation", ie you semi-autonomously go where you look.

I always thought that should have been named "hazard fixation," though.

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Re:To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Coll... by ratrocket on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:49AM (#43822816)
You can consciously harness "target fixation" for good purposes, though. It would be more difficult to talk about that side the coin if it were referred to as "hazard fixation".
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Re:To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Coll... by natebc on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:07AM (#43822327)
Indeed. It's quite amazing both how effective it is and how hard it is to not do. The fixation side of this that is.

I suppose it's a lizard brain thing. Our ancestors that didn't fixate on the lion got got!

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