PERCEPTION OF SELF & OTHERS
While worrying about what people think about one's self and what is thought about others in return is a very complex exchange. It is an exchange where many to most of the people involved are feeling, reacting and jostling based on perceptions and thoughts that are entirely unfounded. This does not automatically mean that the thoughts or perceptions or wrong. However, it can absolutely mean that the thoughts are less than true. With that in mind, people should be careful how they react because of this lack of knowledge. Eye contact and other reactions can, and sometimes should, guide actions and reactions. This can hold true even if the underlying assumptions are wrong. Indeed, safety is sometimes a concern. However, it is entirely too easy to take things too far or to start off on the wrong foot in the first place and this report shall discuss just how this can and does happen.
Perception of Self & Others
The author of this report chose from a number of topics and ended up settling on perception of self and others. This is a topic that may not seem overly complex and detailed to others, but that is far from the truth. So much of how people perceive each other and themselves is based on perception and presumption and so much of that is based on facts and is, for the most part, completely wrong. This is obviously interesting and perhaps unfortunate because so much of behavior and reactions to the same are based on that incorrect or at least incomplete information. While it is possible to overblow and get too deep in what others perceive and feel, there other ways in which the behavior is done very wrong that are different and apart from that.
Analysis
One major way in which perception of self or others is done wrong is when the self-perception is askew and out of phase with reality. People usually have a decent to good perception of themselves and how they come off. Further, there are many people that perceive others in an improper way to begin with and thus what a person thinks about those perceptions of themselves from others should not be taken seriously. That phenomenon will be one of the other main points covered in this section. Anyhow, there is a danger in not being conscious about how one might come off to others, even with reasonable people. Indeed, less than ten percent of communication is verbal and more than half is visual. The rest (about 38%) is vocal (Life Size, 2016). However, there are those that are entirely too ambivalent or ignorant about that and it shows in their reactions to people. There is a difference between being self-confident in what others think of them or even ambivalent about what others think. However, there are other situations where a person should care what others think and/or there is a completely wrong perception about the same. For example, it is often noble for someone to make a decision even if there is resistance from others about that action. However, if the action is ethically, morally and/or legally dubious, the person about to engage in the action may want to take pause and think about why they are really doing the action and whether it is proper for them to do that in the first place. For example, a teenager might feel that going to school and graduating just really is not that important. However, that is really not true and the outcome for that student, should that pattern continue, is not going to be good. Another, and more extreme, example would be parents who feel that their feelings of racism and stereotypes are justified and they exemplify and teach this to their kids. Even if they care little (if at all) for the (justified) condemnation that will surely follow when people realize the values and lessons that are being taught, they are surely doing wrong as thinking and behaving based on bigotry and stereotypes is not correct or valid in any instance. Individuals may validate or manifest stereotypes. This can and often does lead to reinforcement of those negative perceptions (Wolf, 2012).
Conversely, there tend to be a lot of problems with the perceptions of others. The offenses involved can range from the...
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