One summer afternoon I was sitting at a cattle auction. I was focused on the sale until my buddy started complaining about a sparrow chirping. Up to that point I had not noticed the noise the bird was making, but after my buddy pointed it out, I had a difficult time blocking it out and it began to drive me nuts too. Before my buddy said anything I had not noticed that annoying sparrow. My mind had filtered it out, but after bringing my attention to it I could no longer could do that
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