Mike Carruthers

But in everyday life, I mean, that's not everyday life because I'm not usually stopping cyber attacks.

But I imagine this has a practical application just every day when you're not doing something major like that.

First, let me remind people I'm speaking with Amy Herman.

She's author of the book, Visual Intelligence.

So, Amy, as I was saying, you know, I get the importance of doing this, but it also seems like it would want to be something you could turn on and off, that it would be exhausting to look at the world this way all the time.

Talk about situational awareness.

I know the police and military learn about this, but it's important for everybody.

So explain what that is.

And getting better at it, I mean, you use the example of like, look at something, find something that you didn't see before the day before on your way to work.

But it's got to be more than that.

There's got to be more of a process to this.

Whereas most people in that Starbucks never took their eyes off their phone and never looked up and never talked to anybody.

So I get what you do and I admire that you do it, but don't you ever get on a plane and really just want people to leave you alone?

Well, what's so fun about this is that you've taken something that we all do to a greater or lesser degree and created it as a topic to discuss.

This idea of visual intelligence is really something to pay attention to.

Well, I think this is one of those segments that gets people thinking about something that they probably haven't thought about

at all about or thought much about before.

And the idea of honing your visual intelligence sounds, well, it sounds fun, but it also sounds very intriguing.

I've been speaking with Amy Herman.

She's author of the bestselling book, visual intelligence.