Spectrum of Awareness

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

The Concept:

Awareness is similar to the visual spectrum. There are things above the spectrum which go over our heads and we’re not aware of. There are also things which we assume everyone knows that we dismiss and don’t pay attention to.

The difference between the visual spectrum and the spectrum of awareness is that the majority of people share relatively the same visual spectrum but we all have significantly different spectrums of awareness.

The visual spectrum is a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. There is a lot we can’t see.

Our spectrums are different for different subjects and fields. If you ask a fish to climb a tree it will fail. If you ask a fish to breath under water it won’t understand why you’re wasting it’s time.