Happy or sad, exciting or dull, challenging or defeating, you interpret every moment you spend in the world. Perception is not about what happens, it’s about what you’re paying attention to and the then way you interpret that and then ultimately how you act on it or react to it. Such visual biases could make it harder for obese people to adopt an active lifestyle, according to Witt. The results were dramatic: an extra 200 pounds of body weight roughly doubled peoples’ estimates. Obese participants saw the cones as farther away than people who fell in the ‘normal’ range or were only moderately overweight. She and her colleagues went to a Walmart and asked shoppers to estimate the distance from where they stood to several cones on the ground. Parkour novices saw the walls as taller than they actually were, whereas experienced parkour athletes tended to see walls accurately.įurthermore, Witt found that distances look farther to people when they weigh more. Witt and her colleagues asked both experts and novices how well they thought they could climb a given wall and then asked them to estimate its height. In a study by Jessica Witt, a cognitive psychologist at Colorado State University, participants were engaged in Parkour, a non-competitive sport that involves efficient movement around obstacles. This then changes our perception and even our body chemistry. Our brains automatically process what we worry about as a threat.
If you perceive a world of abundance, your actions and attitude attract abundance.Ĭonversely, if you perceive your life as lacking what you need, you worry more about conserving what you have rather than attaining those things you want and need. How you perceive your world influences your attitude, which in turn affects what you attract. The only perception you have control over is your own. There are two types of perception: the way you see yourself and your world and the way others see you and their world.
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