The automatic system works well most of the time: we know what’s going on and what to do and can meander through the demands of the day well enough while we think about other things. But this system has weaknesses, too: our emotions and our motives create skews and biases in our attention that we typically don’t notice, and don’t notice that we don’t notice.
— Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (Daniel Goleman), Loc. 459–62