Story of using Perception to succeed

Transcript from a book about communication and perception. Following example shows how perception can influcen the life.

To illustrate, the authors cite the following example of how perception influences the outcome of a situation: Two people are walking their dogs in a wooded area. Both are wearing corduroy pants. When one person returns home and enters her garage, she notices her pants are covered with prickly burrs. When she tries to remove the burrs, she finds they are nearly impossible to pull off and that they prick and scratch her fingers. Her reaction is annoyance, and she decides the pants are ruined. When the second person returns to his home, his pants are also covered with burrs, but he reacts with curiosity, wondering how the burrs have attached themselves so stubbornly even though he barely brushed against the bushes. The second person in this scenario is actually George deMestral. After examining the burrs under a microscope, he came up with the design for Velcro, a multi-million dollar product.

Shift your perception habits from ordinary to high value and you will produce more benefit in less time than you ever have before. You will become a communication catalyst.”