The Art of Noticing

The Art of Noticing

Strangers as entertainment

How to make the most of other people. Plus a new installment of The Heard.

Rob Walker
May 19, 2022
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One of the fun moments in my Point of View class, which I described in an earlier series of posts1, is a free-form discussion of “overlooked” things, ideas, subjects. This happens every year as students float preliminary thoughts — stuff they have started to notice as a result of the class.

One theme this year was the behavior of other people on the stre…

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