To survive in The Wild, one must pay attention.
Two-Legs pay selective attention. We devote the majority of our neural resources to whatever interests us at the moment.
Which is why we – the modern “we” – don’t do well in The Wild.
Pay too much attention to any one thing and some other one thing snatches you.
Pay too much attention to any dozen things and some other dozen things snatch you.
One learns to be broad-minded, accepting of all information, in The Wild.
It’s a survival thing.
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