How Our Perceptions Shape our Future
An eagle deems an Adder lying in the undergrowth vulnerable, but to a man passing through, its a potential death threat, to the eagle flying high, it is but a small winding tube (lunch), yet to the, man it is an enormous monster...What determines how we intepret the situations we go through is our Perception. Perception is the point from which we view situations, assess people and analyse scenarios., it is the principal determinant on how we react to the stimulis of life. When one's perception is lowly, even the mediocre things appear frightful and intimidating, but he that has set his perception high, considers those things that be at great planes only
The pessimist say the glass is half empty, while the optimist says the glass is half full, though rationally speaking, the water level is the same. Our success, future, relationships are dependent on our chioces, but you see, you can only make choices in the light of how you see things/ the scenario in question. This chain often goes unnoticed, so people create within their minds the very perceptions that are fighting their most yearned for idaels. This is why creating a winning perception is all-important, it appears too trivial due to the chain it follows, but its consequences can go far beyond the foreseeable future.
Perception is but built in one way, the embedding of information into one's habitual thought system. Information comes in through a host of media, experience, instruction, movies etc...Experience! what we go through in life, many a time builds frames within our mind of how life works, this happens the very second we make a conclusion after any occassion. By this conclusion all occassions which fall within the limits of this scenario (having related feelings, location and persons) will be considered as the same therefore they will be intepreted within the barriers of the conclusion, nothing more. Instruction (parental, academic etc) brings in information from other people's experiences and if communicated consistently over a season, the same conclusion the instructor made will be cultivated into one's thought system.
Consider well the Information that you take as true, it with other embedded philosophies, will create new Perceptions. Take charge of all the conclusions you make...though tedious, it is essential to do so, if you're to ensure your desired future!
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commentsIn some instances, our environment may not be conducive enough for the growth and diversity of our perception, and it becomes a vicious circle were our reality is landlocked to our surroundings without a ferry to raft us away from our comfort zones of ignorance. How to overcome, when you do not know that there is plenty out there?
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