Can You Trust Your Perceptions?

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Can You Trust Your Perceptions?

• James J. Messina, Ph.D.

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Could you be on slippery slope of faulty
perceptions?

• Faulty perceptions can impact the way you think,
  feel act
• It can impair problem solving, decision making,
  conflict resolution
• Takes brain time to sort out what senses are
  sending it

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• Here we have a task which greatly challenges the
  left and right side of the brain. Try this task a
  number of times and then try to figure out why it
  is so difficult to do the task which is being
  asked, which is simply to say what color you are
  looking at. 

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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF
MANY YEARS
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Do you see the young lady or old woman?
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Do you see 1 or 2 faces or all 3?
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Do you see the man playing the horn or a womans
silhouette?
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• Do you see a rabbit or a duck or both?

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Do you just see the skull or can you see the
woman?
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Can You Find 11 Human Faces?
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Is this book looking towards you or away from you?
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What then do you need to do to be successful in
problem solving, decision making, conflict
Resolution?

• Use all your senses
• Be open, look at both sides of issues
• Be analytical, identify question assumptions
  stereotypes
• Brainstorm, think out the box!
• Be organized in your approach in dealing with the
  issues

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BE OPEN TO REALITY THE WAY IT IS RATHER THAN
HOW YOU PERCEIVE IT TO BE