Perception- My view of world

                                           

 

 A concept close to my heart, Perception is my personal favourite. I have always been enamoured with its role in relationships, in everyday life and in exchanges in a broader context. It touches everything as an intrinsic part of human exchange and yet we are not aware of it enough. Today while sitting with my nephew, we spoke about his preparations for engineering entrance. It was intriguing to see how he converses with himself and the world. A promising young man, he is very aware of how he is using his perceptions to make his reality. ‘I will not give excuses’, only a promising self-aware person can say this.

That is why my Friday’s blog focused on time and its effects on perception, my premise being if experience and knowledge help in forming perceptions, there should be a strong case that more experience or knowledge will help in changing perception. However, a friend of mine felt otherwise. According to him, one-off experiences cannot change perception. He is right, and that is why consistency and patience are the main inputs to deal with a long set belief system.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/time-perception.html

My Thursday’s blog was trying to get an inside view of the consumer mindset. What makes a buyer take a certain product and shy away from certain others? I  also discussed it in context with an immediate environment like that of family and physical infrastructure. Life doesn’t come in boxes and therefore we should stop viewing it as such. Everything is interconnected and is correlated with my decision. How I perceive my societal status today will largely impact on buying decisions I make or environment consciousness of fitness consciousness will make an impact on my lifestyles and thereby purchase decision. Therefore if you need marketers to impact the perception of the consumer then they will need to align their pitch with the needs of customers.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/perception-and-purchase-decision.html

As an HR professional, 'perception' was my biggest learning. I am not sure I learned how to master it but my keen observation skills, helped me to learn cues about people that gave away their perceptions. Most of the HR conflicts can be summarized in ‘he said she said’ scenario. Knowing perception helped.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/perception-at-work.html

In Perception- a necessity, I discuss the role of perception as an essential, a means to help us bring closer to reality. I speak about children and the role of perception to mould their future. While speaking about my nephew, I realized one more thing today. Just as perception about children is set in an adult’s mind, perception about adults is also set in children’s mind. As an afterthought, as an adult, we often attempt to be right irrespective of the cost of that attempt. I hope I do not undertake such an attempt while speaking to my children.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/perception-necessity.html

In this blog I touch upon the difference between cognition and perception. Perception is not reality but our version of reality, a version that suits our needs and mindset then. I also asked this question in one of the groups on Neuroscience and got about 100 plus responses. However, the best response for me was cognition is raw data and perception is processed data. It might not be exactly true but definitely a start for simple.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/perception-version-of-reality.html

This the blog was more an explanation of why I delved into the topic. It meted out my experiences, my perceptions and my views on the subject, basically a prequel to the coming sequel.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/perception-at-play.html  

Through the week we have established that perception is essentially a play of experiences based on our sensory input. It is both personal and collective where on one hand it is experiential and on it is passed on to us in form of traditions and customs.  The prospect of changing perceptions is what I count on, in fact, all systems do.

Perceptions make us, and we are ever-evolving. By extension, perceptions are ever-evolving.