Posts Tagged ‘perception’

What Are Your Filters?

Whammo! You didn’t see that coming, did you? Why is it that, despite all our planning, we sometimes get caught by surprise, totally unprepared, with our pants down as it were? I mean, we’re smart folks, right? How come sometimes we just don’t see stuff coming? The answer is, much of the time, that we don’t see everything clearly because we don’t see a lot of things at all. We process the… Continue reading

August 13 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: filter, gender, interaction, people, perception, race | 5 comments»

Three More Reasons Why Your Brain is Not Your Friend

Last week, I explained some of the ways that our brain tricks us. There's more ways than just the three I listed that the brain works in odd and mysterious ways, causing us no end of mischief. Here's three more: I am not a racist! In 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was beaten and killed in an attack witnessed by dozens of people, none of whom… Continue reading

October 19 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, perception, psychology, racism, thought | 23 comments»

Read People! A How To

LifeTrainingOnline put together a rather comprehensive document on reading people and their body language. It's a three parter that first introduces the principles to being able to be aware what people are saying without words, then through techniques of people-reading and then finally detecting deception. Preparing Yourself to Read People The key to effectively reading people is by being completely objective - having an empty cup so to speak. Overcoming our… Continue reading

March 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: eye, lie, people, perception | no comments»

Your Perception IS Your Reality

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you." - Douglas Adams

Take a minute to scan your surroundings. Are you in a familiar place or somewhere new? Stop reading this, and just… Continue reading

October 31 2006 | By Tony | Tagged: mind, perception, reality | 9 comments»