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title: "360MEN WTA 01 - Killer Scotomas and Troubling Blindspots"
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created: "2018-09-14"
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category:
  - "Scotomaville"
  - "Worth Thinking About"
summary: "In the inaugural 'Worth Thinking About' episode, Daniel Comp introduces physiological scotomas (the natural blind spot in every human eye) through a simple, participatory 3x5 card exercise that reveals how our brains fill in gaps without our awareness. He then bridges this to psychological blind spots, confirmation bias, and the danger of assuming our 'normal' upbringing or worldview is complete or correct—leading to real-world harm, missed opportunities, and even death (e.g., Joy Covey’s fatal bicycle accident in a driver’s blind spot). Daniel emphasizes application over discussion, the power of replication and digital franchising, and invites men into the private 360MEN.net platform to explore these ideas together as part of climbing their Personal Everest."
keypoints:
  - "Every mammal has a physical scotoma where optic nerves exit the eye; the brain simply fills in the missing data so we remain unaware of it our entire lives."
  - "Psychological scotomas mirror this: we assume our family, experiences, and worldview are 'normal' and complete, yet we are wrong about half of what we believe."
  - "Failing to recognize blind spots can kill—illustrated by the Amazon CFO Joy Covey’s death when a van driver turned directly into her while she was in his blind spot."
  - "Real leverage and wealth come from owning the platform, not just creating content; most creators miss this because they are caught in the scotoma of 'being the star' instead of building replicable systems."
  - "Teaching others to teach others (replication/compound effect) through simple tools like cell phones creates exponential growth far beyond solo creation."
tags:
  - "scotoma"
  - "blind-spots"
  - "worth-thinking-about"
  - "360men"
  - "psychological-bias"
  - "personal-everest"
  - "digital-franchising"
  - "replication"
monomyth_stage: "01 - Ordinary World"
gameboard_position: "Camp -4: The Ordinary World"
truth_score: 85
entropy_score: "Medium"
tone:
  sentiment: "Conversational"
  emotions:
    - "Earnest"
    - "Practical"
    - "Invitational"
  sycophancy_level: "None"
  notes: "Daniel speaks directly and conversationally from his man-cave office, blending demonstration, personal stories, and gentle challenge. Tone is that of a seasoned mentor who has paid dearly for these lessons and genuinely wants men to avoid the same costly blind spots."
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### Original YouTube Description
In a new series: 360MEN 'Worth Thinking About', Daniel Comp introduces the physical challenge all mammals face with scotomas - those physical blind-spots that get in our way without our awareness. The point of actually 'seeing' our blind-spots is often an 'aha' moment or a 'so what'? Daniel introduces psychological blind-spots which are similar to physiological scotomas in that our brains are wired to ignore or coverup their existence or what might be the truth. By recognizing that we are wrong half of the time, and that there is a reason for this, we can become more flexible, understanding and self-aware. None of us experience a 'normal' life growing up. If we accept our mental picture of our 'normal' world as correct, complete and true, then we miss all sorts of opportunities, and much worse, we can cause pain and suffering and even death to people around us. Get in on the conversation at 360MEN.net. Talk about scotomas and blind-spots with other guys on a private (not public) platform and meet more men that are leading the way in their 'Personal Everest'.

Alex (French Guy Cooking)    [![](https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png) / @frenchguycooking](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzFLpOblZEaIx2lpym1l1A)   Joy Covey Bicycling Death [https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2014...](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazVoU2M3QUdzMy13em1TYWZ5emsxd2NtM1gxQXxBQ3Jtc0tuOTFfbk1tX2swRzMwY0h5RlpkLU5FNHNBSWwzaHdKOGM1TEVzRVQ1eVlJRjAyZVhncm9FdXN2LTBqcXRXalFQUlB1bG9xVVRlMjFEb2JlYm92MGFfbzl4eUNmSmRwMTF0N2V6VlR1UlBjMnpSU0I2cw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.almanacnews.com%2Fnews%2F2014%2F04%2F16%2Fno-charges-against-driver-in-accident-that-killed-bicyclist-joy-covey&v=sOhxOAkAUM8) Katheryne Schulz on Being Wrong    [![](https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png) • On being wrong | Kathryn Schulz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleRgTBMX88)

**Note to include:** This is the first 'Worth Thinking About' episode of many. I pivoted from Mugshots to teaching episodes since i couldn't find men to interview that had much to teach on wisdom.

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### Cleaned Transcript
**Daniel:** I'm Daniel Comp, founder of 360MEN. I want to welcome you to my office in my man cave here in the Columbia River Gorge. Well, I have to share it—Angelina's over here. She's actually out on the balcony with her flowers, but this is her whiteboard in office and this is my little corner. This guy—I’ve written three times across America. This is one of my favorite toys: it’s a wind foil and that’s my wind surf gear.

Welcome to 360MEN. I want you to learn by both observation and participation. I’m gonna be teaching you to do several things today. We’re gonna talk about scotoma—blind spots. I’m gonna actually show you how to see what you haven’t seen your whole life.

Part of what I want you to catch in this is that you can use a GoPro or a red box or, as you’re seeing here, your cell phone on a stick and do all of this. You can edit all of this in your cell phone. You don’t have to have special software to do this. It’s really important—which means that it can be repeated. I can teach you, you can teach others, they can teach others, and we can have a compounding effect of the content and the scale of what we’re doing.

But that would be a scotoma for most people because most people are caught up in being the creator and not where the real money is. You see, the real money is in being a platform owner.

I have a new series that we’re thinking about to accompany the Mugshots and Coffee episodes, and these are principles—these are things that I wish my dad had told me. I wish someone had told me not to step on, or watch out for, or things that would cost you as much as they cost me: a divorce, half a million dollars in a business loss from a simple little “well yeah, that’ll be okay.”

These are things that are priceless. They’re really, really hard to find in your normal life—even online, social media, and all of that. You’re gonna be learning things in this new series that will help you to do what I’m doing, which is the basis for replication or impartation or exponential growth.

We’re gonna be going through a whole series of things that appear on the wall one piece at a time, and then we get to talk about it afterward to see how it actually applies. I’m really into application and not so much into just discussion.

So how do you build your audience while teaching people to do the same thing so that they can carry it on like a digital franchise?

We’re gonna start this whole series off with the very first one. It’s a blind spot. It’s a scotoma. It’s a little exercise that you’re gonna get to do. You’ll find out a lot about me, you’ll find out a lot about you, you’re gonna find out a lot about everyone. It has to do with confirmation bias. It’s everywhere—in the algorithms that run our world and our fastly approaching AI and gender neutrality.

This one’s called a scotoma. So let’s go to my desk and you get yourself a three-by-five card and we’ll start this out.

Just get yourself a three-by-five card. And on this card, on one side put a big fat plus. On the other side, about the size of a peppercorn—smaller than a ladybug—draw a dot like that.

Hang on—are you driving your car? Put that phone down. You can’t watch this and do this exercise. And you can’t watch me do this. You have to participate. Go get the paper. Pause this right now. Ready?

You have to get the paper and do it yourself. It’s not a scotoma you can think about—you have to experience it. The point of the exercise is to demonstrate, as mammals—dolphins, humans, etc.—that we all have a scotoma. That’s a blind spot. That’s an area that we have with us our entire life. It’s part of our entire experience in life and yet in almost none of us are personally aware of it.

So I’m going to show that to you. Take that card and I want you to put this dot—sorry—put the plus in front of your right eye. Close your left eye and stare with your right eye right at that plus. And move that card in and out, away from you. And then you will find that that dot on the page literally disappears. I can’t see it right now. And if I push it away—well, there it is again. When I pull it back—disappears right there. And it’s visible again.

And you can do that in the other eye. So turn this over, close your right eye, and stare at this with your left eye. Right there—that dot’s gone. Dot’s back. Gone. Back.

So make sure that this plus is in front of the eye that’s staring at it. Close the opposite one and move this card in and out slowly, slowly, the whole time staring right at that plus. And you’ll see that the dot on the other side of the page disappears. And it’s not a magic trick. It’s actually the way our eyes are formed and our brain is cross-wired that it sort of fools us to believe it’s not there.

That’s a really big indicator and it’s easy to dismiss it. So here’s what’s good to think about in this. It’s worth thinking about actually.

You ever wonder why they have pilots scan the horizon—right to left, look around like this? Because if you can’t see an incoming plane or a missile, if there’s a pilot in the other vehicle they can’t see you either, because you’re both in each other’s blind spots. So not being able to see something is really critical.

So what’s the big deal? It’s just a blind spot. People die all the time from blind spots. The chief financial officer for Jeff Bezos at Amazon died because the floral van driver going up the road did not see her on a bicycle racing down the hill. She was directly in his blind spot. He took a left-hand turn right in front of her. She died. Left her family. That’s a physical outcome of a blind spot.

I’ve done this scotoma exercise with at least 500 guys. It’s been with me for about 20 years. And every time that I do it with somebody new, it’s really fascinating because it’s so easy to gloss over. It’s so easy to just go, “Oh yeah, that’s kind of interesting. A little anomaly in my head, right?”

Well, let’s think about it a little deeper. Because if we have physical blind spots that we’re not even aware of, how much more possible do you think it is to have psychological blind spots? You know, where we think that our point of view is normal. That the family we were raised in was at least kinda normal. If our whole worldview is wrapped around the idea of “normal” based on our experience—imagine how off base it can be.

Turns out nobody has a normal. And we’re half wrong—no, we’re fully wrong half the time, no matter what we believe. That’s been proven in lots of studies. We’re wrong half the time. Fortunately we’re right half the time. And there’s just a little margin there that makes for presidencies and all kinds of interesting decisions that change everything.

One of the points I’m trying to make is that you can use a couple of these devices. You don’t have to get the big fancy cameras out because it’s more about actually the entertainment value in the content and what a bozo that you could be, or how deep you can go with somebody. And it’s not really rocket science.

But I do want to put a shout-out: if you want to see somebody really do it—if you really want to see somebody do this incredible—have a look at this guy Alex, French Guy Cooking. I just got his book. The best way to describe it is you see those geese that fly over there in a chevron—they follow the leader. Watch this guy’s YouTube channel. He’s awesome. He’s got an engineering background and the point being that he stitches things together in a really creative way. That’s something that we could all follow.

What’s the problem with our eye? Well, I got to show you a couple illustrations. You see it has to do with, in the back of our eye, all the optic nerves bundled together—kind of like looking in the bottom of a sink right where the drain is. Well, that’s an area in the eye that does not have photoreceptors because that nerve bundle goes together there. So we actually can’t receive any information in that portion of our eye—meaning both our eyes are blind since birth in one area and we walk around our whole life and have no clue about it.

Well, there’s some other things we don’t have any clues about either.

I’m learning how to wind foil and we stand around at the beach, a bunch of guys all exchanging our crashes, the lessons we’re learning, the techniques, the things we’re all learning this together. You see, we don’t all try to just do it individually—that would be fruitless. So we rely on each other to get a different perspective about where your foot position is, what do you do in the middle of the turn, how much pressure is on that leg, when do you flip really late, how about how do you get through the traps. And questions and things go flying back and forth and together we all learn something much faster than if we tried to do it individually.

So why is this important? I mean, who cares, right? “Oh, I got a little blind spot in my eye.”

Well, I’ll paint on a wall—I have something written. And here’s another blind spot in business. You ever noticed that Goodwill gets its inventory for free? Or how about Google or YouTube or Facebook or LinkedIn? All of us creative types—we put all this effort and work into creating content. We put it on their platform and they make the billions of dollars from our contributions. Who makes the money? It’s not the creative people. It’s the platform owners. That’s the deep end.

I want to talk to you in private about a platform. It’s taken me a long time to build it, but I can’t do it out here in public because I don’t want to disclose too much on digital franchising and private syndications. That’s what this scotoma is leading to: an awareness there’s an opportunity for us to do something phenomenal with exponential technology—right—to use tools available to get great leverage. And it’s not a big deal thing because we use hammers and crowbars and shovels and all kinds of tools to change everything. It’s just a digital tool in this age. But it’s not one we want everybody having because we want an advantage with it.

So I want you to come have this conversation with me in private with some of the other guys and we’ll talk about it, look at it, play with it, and you can consider how this might apply to you and your enterprise so that we can make a big difference.

That makes the first episode of Worth Thinking About with 360MEN.

And I wish some of that content would have made it into this head decades ago.

If you have questions for us, just jump on 360MEN.net and let us know. Subscribe to the channel. And as Alex says, you can spread it around like butter—you know, share it on your social media. Let’s get a few more voices in on this.

I want to encourage you: you probably have a story to share with us. You know, a Personal Everest is something that takes as many years and decades to do—just like climbing Everest. You go up and down, up and down, up and down. And it’s a lot of being acclimated to new concepts, new principles, new practices, new beliefs. And sometimes it only takes one bad step and sets you back a long time. And sometimes it’s just one simple AHA and things come together—just like with wind foiling.

Alright, good on you. Thanks for watching.

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**CODEX ENTRY**  
**Date:** 2018-09-14  
**File:** 360MEN WTA 01 - Killer Scotomas and Troubling Blindspots.md  
**Monomyth Stage:** 01 - Ordinary World  
**Gameboard Position:** Camp -4: The Ordinary World  
**MA5 Domain:** Initium  
**Summary:** Daniel launches the “Worth Thinking About” teaching series by demonstrating the universal physiological scotoma and immediately connecting it to the far more dangerous psychological blind spots that shape our assumptions of “normal.” He pivots from interview-style Mugshots to practical, replicable wisdom because few men had deep lessons to share.  
**Key Insight:** We are blind in one spot of each eye from birth and our brain hides it; the same mechanism hides our psychological scotomas—making us fully wrong half the time while we confidently believe our worldview is complete. Failing to see this costs lives, marriages, businesses, and opportunities.  
**Narrative Significance:** This foundational episode plants the Scotomaville seed in the Initium arc: awareness of hidden blind spots is the first requirement for any meaningful climb of the Personal Everest. It establishes the teaching style, the invitation into private community, and the core methodology of simple, participatory demonstration that can be taught teacher-to-teacher for exponential impact.

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**INITIUM.**