There's a Specific Kind of Noticing Most Education Never Teaches, and Most People Never Practice
Formal education spends a great deal of effort training a specific kind of noticing: recognizing patterns in data, in historical events, in literary structure, in mathematical relationships. It spends almost none training the closely related but distinct skill of noticing patterns in one's own ongoing behavior — despite this being, for most people, the pattern with the highest personal stakes.
This isn't an oversight so much as a structural gap: patterns in external material are teachable with a shared curriculum and gradable with a shared answer key. A pattern in one's own behavior is different for every student, has no answer key, and doesn't fit the format that formal education is built to deliver at scale.
The result is a specific, common gap: people who are well-trained at noticing patterns in essentially every domain except the one domain that's actually theirs — never because they lack the underlying capability, but because it was never the thing anyone specifically taught them to point that capability at.
The skill isn't missing. It's just never been aimed at this particular target by anything resembling formal instruction — which makes it available to be learned, not an ability some people simply have and others don't.
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Momar Lissa Ndiaye ("MLN") is the Founder & CEO of weyoga Inc., a Delaware company. — weyoga.ai · mln@weyoga.ai