Is your perception is only yours

Saad Bin Hamid
4 min readDec 23, 2020

It looks cool to say that we are the owner of our own mindset and our mindset is independent but to what extent its authenticity exists? Are we really independent in thoughts? Are we having a mindset of our own? Let’s talk about this!

Its a business term “Supply and demand” but believe me it’s accurately applicable to our mindsets and perceptions. Most of our perceptions are supplied and used by authorities. Like Hate “it’s our demand” hate is easy to sell. All you need is a single controversial speech of any Religious scholar against each other’s sects, A political leader and party to start a massacre between the people of the same nation for their own goods. Its simple supply and demand theory, what you demand is supplied by someone in the way the supplier wanted.

The influence of media is another aspect of that supply and demand. Your perceptions are directly influenced by the society you are living in. For example, in most of the elections the one who wins is the one whose wave is on peak in the country because no one wants to be on the losing side and believe it or not but the real elections are done before the election day via your mindsets like for instance you are living in India and one day before elections you are in support of Congress but when you open the news channel and social media there’s Modi wave whole night and on the election day. Then maybe you might change your side because as I said “ No one wants to be on the losing side “.

The perceptions of other people in our life is increasing day by day. It makes an impact on our career as people perception will decide that what we have to do in our life like what we have to choose engineering, medical etc. As it makes huge influence in choosing field cause many of us choose the field which give us money rather choosing the field of our interest. And it took because of perceptions of others.

As a teacher, they have to share a lot of real-life stories about real life struggles that real-life people face. Stories about challenges in adolescence, rocky relationships, doubts during the engagement and after. Teachers should try to prepare them that not everyone has an easy time finding a life partner, not everyone has children and not everyone is successful at everything all the time. They should tell them that perceptions are deceiving and that life is complex for everyone.

We all know it, and yet we don’t always accept it. We prefer to gloss over challenges and do our best to project perfection and strength while also demanding it, however implicitly, of others. We’re not always ready or willing to hear about the difficulties in others’ lives, and we often hesitate ourselves in sharing the challenges in ours.

The perception of the environment and, consequently, the perception and representation of the world as such, is different for these species — what would be the favorite music of an elephant, which preference would a bat indicate if “honestly asked”? What does infrasonic acoustics sound and feel like? Note: infrasonic frequencies can also be perceived by humans; not acoustically in a strict sense but via vibrations — still, the resulting experiences are very different (cf.

But even if we have access to given information from the environmental world, it would be an illusion to think of “objective perception” of it — differences in perception across different individuals seem to be obvious: this is one reason for different persons having different tastes, but it is even more extreme: even within a lifetime of one person, the perceptual qualities and quantities which we can process change.

This is a radical philosophy of perception. It raises an intriguing question about the evolutionary history of our perceptual apparatus. If evolution is truly “the most rigorous, exhaustive research and development and product-testing process on our planet”, as Lotto has it, then to survive at all, surely our senses must have given our ancestors and us a trustworthy representation of reality? Lotto’s answer is an emphatic no: “We don’t see reality — we only see what was useful to see in the past.” Much like a London Underground map, our perceptual brain doesn’t offer an accurate spatial representation; rather, it helps us to navigate in a safe and efficient way.

But there are things in life — bigger and smaller — that are beyond us. And we can’t be afraid to seek out assistance from those around us who can make a difference. Family members, friends, mentors, and professionals. We can’t be afraid to share and to talk and let others into our internal world. There are people out there who can make a life changing impact, if we let them.

So, every aspect whether its religious, political, social etc. is influenced by some third party. But there is a way to out dot this by taking your emotions aside when you are talking facts and when you are taking any decision.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/perception-reality-and-the-gap-between-them/

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Saad Bin Hamid
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I am Saad Bin Hamid. Student of BS-A&F.