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the quiet superpower of noticing before it costs you everything
means The state of being alert and watchful, especially for danger or trouble before it arrives.
from From the Latin 'vigilare,' to keep awake or stay watchful, which sprang from 'vigil' — one who stays up through the night, alert while others sleep. The same root keeps watch in 'vigil' itself and in 'vigilante,' and it's a distant cousin of 'vegetable' and 'vigor,' all tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning lively or full of vital force. To be vigilant, in the deepest sense, is simply to be wide awake.
- latin root
- From vigil, meaning awake and watchful
- brain cost
- Sustained attention fatigues neurons within roughly 30 minutes
- vigilance decrement
- Detection accuracy drops the longer you watch
- meerkat duty
- Sentries take turns scanning skies for predators
- price of freedom
- Eternal vigilance, the old proverb warns
neighborhood watch programs — over 15,000 active programs in the united states monitoring local crime and suspicious activity
operation sentinel — french military operation deployed 10,000 soldiers across the country after 2015 paris attacks
citizen patrols border — american militia groups conducting armed surveillance along the us-mexico border since 1990s