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I recently stumbled upon this quick read about the surprising amount of detail in reality. I highly suggest reading through the article, its fairly short. The highlights for me were the following:

Another way to see that noticing the right details is hard, is that different people end up noticing different details.

Before you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible. It’s hard to put your attention on them because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. But after you see them they quickly become so integrated into your intuitive models of the world that they become essentially transparent.