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Filtering reality from perception

Tania Ngima

Perception is reality and the truth, negotiable. If you can make people believe something, it becomes a fact. As human beings, we are not obtuse, but we are open to suggestion and we absorb information selectively.

We come into conversations as the sum of our past experiences, biases and prejudices. This is the reason an identical situation, presented to two different people can result in completely different interpretations.

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