Perception

"What do you see in people?"

This session was all about perception. Everyone has a different view on everything, so it is only just to expect that people will have different perception about us. Some of it may match your view of yourself and at the same time some will not. Now some people will see a certain traits in us that even we would not have noticed, these traits are the blind spots in our character. 

First impression has a great sway in how perceive someone, now we can debate about the fact that if first impression is good or not but the reality is that everyone has a first impression about the people they meet. 

The thing to be noticed here is that how away is other’s perception from our perception about our self. This will help us to realize how we must improve so that we can be the best versions of us. This can be done by getting feedback from our peers and friends but the people we sort to should know us quite well in order to give us good feedback that we can use constructively. 

As said earlier different people have different views but not all of them are close to what we think. We can react to this many ways, some take it constructively to work on it but some get annoyed at the person giving the feedback instead. This kind of behavior will not get us forward. We have to realize that like they have a perception about us, we will also have a perception about them and it may be even farther from reality than their view on us.

Ideally, there should be a gap in both our and their perception because no one can know us perfectly, even we don’t know our self perfectly. So if there is no gap then it can only mean one of two things either the person doesn’t know us well or the person is not being genuine. Both will have a bad effect on the result of the analysis.

First impressions will have a sway in this as previously mentioned so we need to learn to see the person regardless of that first impression.