Attend a horse race — perhaps at Santa Anita, Keeneland or Churchill Downs — and you will see some horses wearing blinders as they gallop down the track. Those blinders keep the horses focused on what ...

If you’ve ever seen a horse-drawn carriage or watched the Kentucky Derby, you likely noticed that the horses typically wear blinders around their eyes to block their peripheral vision. This helps to ...

Whether we realize it or not, all of us wear some level of blinders. Politics, climate change, Black (Every) Lives Matter or the virus, we focus straight ahead, not considering any other ideas except ...

An Amish man might correct me, but I believe horses wear blinders to keep them on paths guided by their masters. Without blinders, horses might be spooked by unexpected noises and flashes. With ...

How do you know when your partner’s most unlovable qualities are the idiosyncrasies that you will learn to love and, therefore, will allow you a long and healthy relationship versus the things that ...

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