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Do you consider yourself perceptive?
Posted by myriadlife • 4/28/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: perception, reading others, sincererity
Do you think you are good at reading the emotions, thoughts, actions of others or don't you take much notice?
Do you realise when someone is giving you a line, is insincere or trying to pull the wool over your eyes?
Or are you naive, do you take things at face value and are you trusting of others?
I like to think I'm quite perceptive but we all get caught out sometimes.
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I believe there is a difference between our ability to apprehend and perceive accurately what's being conveyed to us online, and our abilities to do so offline, primarily due to sensory deprivation.
In face-to-face situations I believe I am good at reading the emotions, thoughts, actions of others. I recognize when someone is insincere and spieling me a line. However, in online situations I do not believe that I am as good at accurately reading where others are coming from.
In face-to-face meetings sensory feedback (facial expressions, gestures, body language) is critically important data that gives us confidence in another person, and allows us to create a foundation of trust upon which communication and friendship are based. In the absence of sensory input online we can believe we know someone well when we really don’t actually know them at all. How this happens is easily explained; we tend to create the missing data with our imagination. Yes, we fantasize and we can easily make huge mistakes.
In fact I just published a post on this: Internet relationships: When the walls fall down thistimethisspace.com/2009/04/26/internet-relationships-when-the-walls-fall... -
I think I'm pretty perceptive-- though perhaps too distrustful.
I tend not to believe most things people tell me, at least on some level. While I'm quite honest myself, I always find I'm wondering what someone else's angle is.
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