Google defines:
Perspective (point of view): Human thought is relational and selective. It is impossible to understand any person, event, or phenomenon from every vantage-point simultaneously. Our purposes often control how we see things. Critical thinking requires that this fact be taken into account when analyzing and assessing thinking. This is not to say that human thought is incapable of truth and objectivity, but only that human truth, objectivity, and insight is virtually always limited and partial, virtually never total and absolute. The hard sciences are themselves a good example of this point, since qualitative realities are systematically ignored in favor of quantifiable realities.
Insight: A form of cognitive change that involves recognition of previously unseen relationships.
The way that we percieve the world(society, norms, customs, etc) around us influences our decisions and our values. As a consequence, i believe that personal perceptive abilities of the world around us plays a key role in shaping the quality of our lives.
To be honest i'm not too sure where i'm heading with this topic, i was inspired by the touch footy match i played just a few hrs ago! There are people in our society who have the ability to 'foresee' events that will most likely occur, way before the situation has unravelled. Where it be on the touch footy field, in the business environment, politics, inter-personal relationships: imo these people have this factor that makes them unique and in a position of ... power?
What allows us the ability to percieve things? What gives people an 'insight' into a situation? Past experiences, memory, values - all things that i believe shape ones perspective.
Do you reckon, YOU think differently from other people? Are you gifted inregards to your perceptive and cognitive abilities? I could ramble on awhile longer but the need for sleep has changed my mind.
In touch news: We drew, 7-7? Against the wooden spooners (i think?) we managed to let in a few weak points. Infact, all tries scored for and against Team-Suss were weak imo. Quek dominated the breakdown with his 'Splits' booyah! General field positioning was better, imo the better players on our team this game were Choi, Jacq and Dennis. For differing reasons; Choi was coming onto the ball and looked deadly many times, Jacq came into the middle of the field with a solid performance and Dennis positioned himself excellently interms of Team ball Movements. Other than that the team was pretty pleased with the result.
I think if this game occured 3 weeks earlier i would have been fuming at the effort and result put in. However, i don't have the same level of intensity anymore! nite!
Posted by sleong at April 5, 2005 01:35 AM