Comment by munificent
9 years ago
Sorting into sets would be a lot harder. Just grouping by similar pieces is a fairly fast, automatic process. I could just sort of zone out and run on pleasant zen autopilot. I didn't need to keep running counts, etc.
I found that by looking for pieces with certain shapes, my brain/eyes would lock in after a little while and it got really easy to spot them as I sifted through the pile.
What I find is that if I look at them myself I tend to match shape and color, then I have to really force myself to look for the same shape in a different color. Very strange how automatic this is. It's like some subroutine taking over.
Yes! It did take some effort to untrain myself from matching on color.
Another one like that: Looking for a certain shape, being 100% sure that you have all of them, then you start looking for a different shape and you keep on finding that previous shape over and over again.