Have you experienced an optical illusion where you don't initially see all of the options? Was the dress blue with gold stripes? Were you team Laurel or Yanny? Can you see the rabbit and the duck?

Our lived experiences are the tools we use to interpret the world around us. This is why we may assume there is a monster in the garage when we haven't experienced an earthquake before - we literally don't have the experience to pull from to understand what is happening. We believe what we know - whether we know it or not.

Take some time to notice how you perceive yourself and others. The role of perception is directly linked to all that we are conscious of as well as all of the stuff we aren't! We must learn our habits to be able to be open to understand something we don't understand.

Speaker:

Jessica Pettitt, M.Ed.