Are you a slave of your perception?

Prof. Ajay,

What you see, hear or feel in everyday life is recorded by your brain and whenever a similar situation crops the brain understands and terms it as "PRERECORDED".

Sorry saw your remark late, hope this clears the confusions

Well Mr. Shashikant, to be frank I am not a slave to my perception, the degree of perception vary . we are all human being and are reacting according to the situation and all depends. One should not have a constant perception that is not good. I am very straight forward and I will never justify my mistakes and i will accept my mistakes if committed. I have the moral courage to accept and deny, the right & wrong respectively.

Human beings have a brain that is wired to perceive what it expects and alarming things that are not expected.

But we can learn to suspend this automatic reacts if we want to and find it useful. If you want to create change you need to be able to perceive the unexpected and train yourself in seeing and intepreting the unexpected.

We can easily do that because we have a great imagination and we like to ply with ideas and perceptions. We master this as children, so we can always re-master our perception - if we choose to. In most countries and industies it is not good behavior to challenge the traditional perceptions of the community.

There are people who follow the rules of perception. There are people who break the rules of perception. There are people who change the rules of the game of perception.

What do you hope for your children? To have a life like yours? To have a better life than yours? To create better lives for themselves and others?

If your children become slaves of their perception they will not be able to improve their living conditions by themselves.

Teach you children the magic of changing the perception. You have a well known role model in India. Mahatma Ghandi could have stayed inside the expected behavior of an educated man of Indian origin. He chose not to.

Who are the heroes in India that was able to break the mental slavery that perception offers? How did they break the mental slavery? How will you teach your children, colleagues and bosses to overcome the risk of becoming slaves of perception?

In my opinion, perceptions are not bad by themselves. We need a baseline to get into our minds all kind of new experiences. The problem is how long we stay trapped in our perceptions before evolving our thougths.

Hi, I feel - out of compassionate observation - that you must be quoting about "SELFISHNESS". If it is so, then you can say that we, most of the time, deal with the things with certain personal objectives in mind. However, this is not true for all the activities we do throughout the cycle. 

Further, I would like to draw your kind attention that 'Perception' is - receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses. The example of 'Perception' would be if half-filled glass is there on the table, so how would you describe it - Glass is half-full or Glass is half-empty? The Perception may be either of the two.

But, your question here suggest that you may be pointing to the Greed or Selfish-ness. 

Therefore, I guess and believe that your argument needs to be re-phrased keeping the context in mind, don't you yourself feels so..?

Anyways, thanks for raising such issue to share the thoughts on.

As we grow older and become more conscious of the way our mind plays tricks on us in the light of our likes and dislikes, our pride and prejudices, pre-conceived notions and misconceptions and also, become more and more experienced in the ways of the world, we do tend to play down the initial perception of any thing, people or event that we experience in this world. We do try to judge matters more objectively through a process of reasoning or through discussions with significant others. Objectivity is thus a part of our survival technique in fact. 

Perception is good in professional life upto a limit. If you are going to be a slave of it it won't bring any benifites to your profession i feel. We should be realistic and think twice as Mr. Anand said before acting upon our perception. It would be better to waork as team in any organization.

Percptions keep changing n so do people. I feel looking through someone else's perspective is merely an eyewash cuz only he one who wears the shoe knows where it bites. We have no choice but to look a things with our own perspectives. But, yes, acknwledging that our perception needs a change n implementing the said change should be the best way forward for any individual.

'Change' as its said, is the only constant in this universe,,,,how can we move ahead being so adamant? It should change & I think it changes as we stride in our lives,,,,regarding money,,material things,priorities,,friends,,relatives,,society,,even with our spouse,,,& so on,,,isn't it? Yes Truth alone prevails & triumphs.

No I am not......

I do agree sometimes I act according to perception but not a slave to it. I think twice before taking decision and analysis to effects of the output. And I am not a kind of person who does everything according to the perception........