THE ARROGANCE OF THINKING THAT YOUR PERCEPTIONS ARE THE ONLY VALID AND AUTHENTIC ONES DISAPPEARS TO REMEMBERING THAT YOUR PERCEPTIONS ARE PARTIAL AND SUBJECTIVE.

Forming perceptions carefully and checking their accuracy helps you to be a better communicator.

Your perceptions are dictated by your physiology, culture, standpoint, social roles, the depth with which you analyze and think about people and situations, and your subjective knowledge of others.

What you perceive is partial and subjective in character. You are selective in your habits of perception, picking out only certain aspects of stimuli to notice.

Because of the influence of your individual background, physiology and personal modes of interpretation, on your perceptions, it is largely subjective.

The objective features of your reality are essentially neutral and without meaning, until you observe, organize, and interpret them. Constructing meanings for the people and events, in your life, is what your perception does.

To perceive is to define what things mean to you.

Disagreement between two individuals implies a difference in their personal, social, cultural, and physiological resources for perceiving.

Feelings of insecurity could predispose you to perceive another person as domineering.

Leaning towards unworthiness could lead you to perceive others as unfriendly.

For the sake of curbing the arrogance of thinking that your perceptions are the only valid and authentic ones, remember that your perceptions are partial and subjective.