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Perception

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Although such vigilance is no longer as critical to our survival as it was thousands of years ago, we’re still highly attuned to perceive threats to our everyday well-being.

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Self-justification… will protect high self-esteem to avoid dissonance, but it will also protect low self-esteem if that is a default self-perception.

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Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories.

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As soon as people have created a category called us… they invariably perceive everybody who isn’t in it as non-us.

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Every marriage is a story, and like all stories, it is subject to its participants’ distorted perceptions and memories that preserve the narrative as each side sees it.

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That people are willing to pay money for whatever a company has to offer is simply proof that they perceive or derive some value from those things.

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Real or perceived, when there is danger, we act from a place of fear rather than confidence.

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Courage, as it relates to leading with an infinite mindset, is the willingness to completely change our perception of how the world works.

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A challenge without mastery of the facts can be perceived as incompetence.

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People are often blinded by the way they perceive things… What people perceive is what they believe.

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