Perspective to the eyes of some people is not important at all. Life is too precious and short to
make improvised decisions. Although many improvised decisions have brought us joy, perspective
is powerful because without it our mistakes would multiply due to improvising. It makes us
powerful to have more than one choice. Now a day, teenagers are often dying because they
don't think things before doing them. When a teen needs a ride and he takes the first due to
desperation and the first option is a drunken teen that will lead to crashing, harming and even
death. If the teen decides to look for more options he may find someone who is not drunk or
that has more driving experience. If the teen does not find anyone, he can see that it's a high risk
being in a car with a
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As John Lubbock said, "What
we see depends on what we look for". In fact, this is true. Psychologists call it selective
perception.
Selective perception is the tendency to not notice and more quickly forget stimuli that cause
emotional discomfort and contradict our prior beliefs. For example, a teacher may have a favorite
student because they are biased by in-group favoritism. The teacher ignores the student's poor
attainment. Conversely, they might not notice the progress of their least favorite student. Living
is crucial. Decisions are crucial. Perspective is crucial. Things are not bad or good; things are how
we see them. The pleasure of fully living life in society depends in which perspective we see it,
as Shawn Achor said, "Don’t get stuck with one reality. Practice looking at your life from multiple
vantage points and use your friends to help, and you’ll find there’s more than meets the eye to
creating positive change". Our thoughts, our pleasant and unpleasant tastes, our state of mind,
our worldview and other infinite things depend on our perspective. For some humans,