FIELD NOTES from the Grey Zone

FIELD NOTES from the Grey Zone

How to Develop an Advanced Perception of the World Around You

Or how to train your brain to connect all the dots

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Oriane Cohen
Mar 21, 2025
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Some people walk into a room and vaguely sense the atmosphere.

Others, in a fraction of a second, pick up everything: invisible tensions, hidden dynamics, implicit power plays.

If you're reading this article, you’re probably in the second category, or at least, you want to be.

What you're looking to refine is cognitive and emotional hyper-perception.

Some c…

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