The proposition “Perception is reality” is a statement that is entirely false. People are more likely to only see what they believe is right. In Scripture the phrase they did what was right in their own eyes that is the same as it is in reality. People only want to believe what will make them feel better or goes along with they believe is the right course of action. When two people get into an argument they only view ideas or problems through what they view is right. However, there are universals that stand the test of time. People may view the rest of their lives through their own perception, but when it comes to certain morals we all see the same thing.
When we only look through our own perception we are more likely to be more ignorant of facts and ideas that go against what they believe is true. When you look through your perception it creates your own reality but it forces actual reality to take a back seat to the one that you have created. Perception makes society more ignorant of our fellow man because we are willing to ignore people and their opinion because it contradicts what we believe is reality even though it may not be reality.
2. The proposition that “Words don’t mean things, People mean things” is absolutely true. If you get into an argument with somebody and apologize, your words you say that you are sorry, but if your body language and intentions say no then you are not sorry. This is a matter of the heart because a person can say a statement but not mean it in his heart. When we are in a difficult situation the words we say will not matter on the final product, but what will matter is how we react to a situation. Many of the communication cues will come from the body language that we give off while we ...
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...hemselves. However, in America today there is a problem of never getting out on your own, experiencing failure, success, or difficult situation without being able to handle them.
III. Satisfaction
a. Prospective college students should look at a university that is farther than 100 miles away from home
IV. Visualization
a. Imagine that once a person leaves the universities and colleges that they have the skill sets to manage difficult situations. They will understand that they are responsible for their actions and nobody else is. Imagine a society that is self-reliant because they have experienced living on their own.
V. Actions
a. If you believe in this lobby universities and education organizations to make it easy for students to go far distances from home. Second, encourage them to study the benefits of going far distances away from home to get an education.
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...someone will be successful as an adult, college degree or not. Not to mention the obstacles that may get in our way through the course of years in us getting to the point of adulthood or the balls that on must juggle in their adult life. The teaching and learning that helps individuals to succeed, perhaps needs to come from parents and role models, as we are learning values, which begins to happen before we ever enter our years of formal education.
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Everyone on the planet does not experience the same things. They come from different countries, racial and ethnic groups, socio-economic statuses, environments, and many other factors that influence how a person is raised and grows throughout life. Therefore, everyone perceives reality in different ways. Our beliefs and expectations about reality the world can also influence how we experience reality. According to Psychology Today, there are many things that people do that distort reality. For example, the way that people focus their attention can alter their perceptions. When a person has a belief they often only look for evidence that supports their belief and disregard evidence that contradicts their belief. This is called conformation bias. People see things as they want to see them, even if there is evidence to discredit their beliefs. One way for a person to avoid conformation bias is to examine evidence that does not support their belief instead of just ignoring it. This can make a person view the world around them more objectively. Another thing that people do that distorts their reality is that they reconstruct their memories. People often cannot fully remember their memories. These
As the economy evolves and the job market continues to get more competitive, it’s becoming harder to have a successful career without some kind of college degree. This creates a belief in many young students that college actually is a commodity, something they must have in order to have a good life. There’s many different factors that influence this mindset, high schools must push the importance of the student’s willingness and drive to further their education. College isn’t just a gateway to jobs, but it is an opportunity to increase knowledge and stretch and challenge the student which in return makes them a more rounded adult and provides them with skills they might lack prior to
Another point that society makes is that college will turn its students into better people. But how does college actually turn someone into a better person? College can place students in situations that call for responsibility and in situations where they may demonstrate qualities of leadership. However college does nothing more then give the students the opportunity to demonstrate the qualities that they already possess. As Bird effectively quotes from respected psychologists Bruner and Piaget, "Specific learning skills have been acquired very early in life, perhaps even before formal schooling begins" (306). Piaget and Bruner believe that the skills of leadership and responsibility have been learned prior college. College simply provides an environment to display the basic skills.
If one needs a secure future, he/she has to attend college and attain a college degree to do so. College is doing a great job in educating the students about the particular subject, but is not doing so well to get them ready for their future jobs. To be able to sustain themselves in their field of work, students have to learn with more hands on activities, which will help them develop faster ways to be able to perform tasks, and make the least amount of mistakes. If the students do make mistakes, then they should learn from them rather than think negatively about making mistakes. Colleges should prepare students to deal intellectually with their future jobs by helping them providing with internships, and talking to them about importance of volunteering in our society, so students want to volunteer rather than forced to do so. Doing so will help improve our society’s condition because we will see more people helping each other rather than being selfish. Colleges should inform students about fraudulent cases that take place in the world on a daily basis, so the students could be better consumers. Colleges need to build programs for students which helps students with their critical thinking, and so that students could surround themselves with people who want to achieve similar goals in life. This will help students build a team, and help them be creators in life with their innovations. Doing so will
In life, what we perceive tends to show misconception in how the thought plays out. A good example would be the character Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic: The Great Gatsby. Gatsby was unable to distinguish between his love for Daisy, a reality, versus the illusion that he could recapture her love by establishing and inventing a fraudulent past. He believed he could repeat the past, and acquire a flaunting wealth. In the novel, Jay Gatsby seems incompetent in establishing a difference between the realities of his life versus the illusion he made out.
It seems as though the majority of college students these days aren’t looking to further their education because it’s what they really want, they do it to please their parents, to be accepted by society, or because there’s nothing else for them to do (Bird, 372). These expectations have led to students being unhappy and stressed, and have pushed them into a school or a job that they don’t particularly care for.
The way that each individual interprets, retrieves, and responds to the information in the world that surrounds you is known as perception. It is a personal way of creating opinions about others and ourselves in everyday life and being able to recognize it under various conditions. Each person’s perceptions are used as a kind of filter that every piece of information has to pass through before it determines the effect that it has or will have on the person from the stimulus. It is convincing to believe that we create multiple perceptions about different situations and objects each day. Perceptions reflect our opinions in many ways. The quality of a person’s perceptions is very important and can affect the response that is given through different situations. Perception is often deceived as reality. “Through perception, people process information inputs into responses involving feelings and action.” (Schermerhorn, et al.; p. 3). Perception can be influenced by a person’s personality, values, or experiences which, in turn, can play little role in reality. People make sense of the world that they perceive because the visual system makes practical explanations of the information that the eyes pick up.
Since perception is how someone chooses to see things, depending on their view, it will also sway and affect their emotions and motivations, based on what they see. Say someone's perception is very negative: that will lead them to only draw out the negatives, probably leading to more depressed and frustrated emotions. This might lead them to have no motivation, or too much, based on how they interpret that negative perception. The reasoning behind this is simple, because if someone sees negatively they will have negative emotions, and probably a reason derived from negativity to motivate themselves. On the other hand, if someone has a positive outlook and perception they will be happier, for they no longer confide themselves in the negatives and will probably have a more valuable reason to motivate themselves. In conclusion, someone's perception will affect their emotions and motivations, and change the way they think, so it is important to keep perceptions