{"id":166202,"date":"2023-06-22T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-overview-effect-it-will-transform-how-you-think-forever"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:24:50","slug":"the-overview-effect-it-will-transform-how-you-think-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-overview-effect-it-will-transform-how-you-think-forever","title":{"rendered":"The Overview Effect: It will transform how you think forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Overview Effect: It will transform how you think forever\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQsgGCXdAlY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On this day 52 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. Here\u2019s what they said about \u201cThe Overview Effect\u201d and how it transforms the way you think forever.<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of the overview effect? It\u2019s an interesting phenomenon that, for the time being, is exclusively reserved for astronauts. It refers to the overwhelming feeling astronauts get when witnessing for the first time the Earth from space.<\/p>\n<p>It was first experienced by Yuri Gagarin in April 1961 when he became the first human to orbit the Earth. The event led him to marvel at Earth\u2019s beauty, saying, \u201cPeople of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty, and not destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, all astronauts walking on the Moon, also reported feeling a profound and stunning sense of clarity when first witnessing the Earth from so far.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Collins described his experience, saying \u201cThe thing that really surprised me was that it [Earth] projected an air of fragility. And why, I don\u2019t know to this day. I had a feeling it\u2019s tiny, it\u2019s shiny, it\u2019s beautiful, it\u2019s home, and it\u2019s fragile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine that this overview effect is important because it results in a tremendous desire to protect the Earth. But that\u2019s not the only reason. In our video, we explain why the overview effect is so important and how the term was first coined.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-overview-effect-it-will-transform-how-you-think-forever\">Continue reading \u201cThe Overview Effect: It will transform how you think forever\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 52 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. Here\u2019s what they said about \u201cThe Overview Effect\u201d and how it transforms the way you think forever. Have you heard of the overview effect? It\u2019s an interesting phenomenon that, for the time being, is exclusively reserved for astronauts. It refers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}