Circle of Trust

I have been thinking about Perception verse Perspective and some of the books that I have been reading also seem to explore these ideas.  In my opinion, perception is an individuals perspective of a situation, with the extra burden of carrying any emotions along, which get triggered by the events of a situation.  These emotions often make us jump when we see a dark spot on a wall, and think it’s a spider, or get angry when we hear our teen, spouse, or co-worker challenge us.  These emotions cloud our ability to judge the situation properly and can often lead us to make poor decisions and react in ways that we later regret.  I challenged the PAX to deliberately focus on having non-emotional reactions to situation, and to try and look at the same events from the perspective of the other people in the situation.  Doing so will often lead to great insight as to what led to the situation in the first place and will likely uncover a mutually beneficial path forward.