The No Excuses Project: ‘My perception is skewed’
December 23, 2009 by Juliet Chase
Filed under No Excuses Project
I would liken this excuse to being suddenly blind and deciding to sit in the same spot until either you could see again or magically become confident that you would never bump into a wall. Just because I see the fallacy in the argument doesn’t mean I haven’t used it! A belief that you are always attracted to the wrong men (or women), or that you can’t seem to get a business off the ground when others are doing so fits into the excuse that you are somehow inherently flawed and can’t trust your own judgment. The primary flaw in this excuse is the underlying belief that there is a perfect standard – some absolute truth that can be measured against. But there just isn’t. There also isn’t a set schedule that everyone else follows nor do people usually own up to their own bumped noses.
Just like eyesight we all see things through the same technical process (light waves) but we receive slightly different data and process it differently. No one person holds the truth on the exact shade of yellow in a daffodil or the right time to move across the country. So how can your perception be skewed if there isn’t a single one out there that isn’t? The only real recourse is to blindly get up out of the chair, make a note of the walls you encounter and adjust course. Being self-aware and able to acknowledge your own mistakes without recrimination will allow your judgment calls to grow with you; sitting in the chair won’t bring any more clarity.
Next week: I don’t have the right equipment
