{"id":207,"date":"2021-05-22T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2021-05-22T01:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T01:28:13","slug":"how-we-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/22\/how-we-see\/","title":{"rendered":"how we see."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">I am blind as a bat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">I often imagine myself in the 13th century mistaking our family goat for a tiger and that being the end of our bloodline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Survival of the fittest becomes difficult when you can&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Seeing isn&#8217;t just physical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Scientifically, seeing is when light hits the retina, our photoreceptors turn the light into electrical signals. These electrical signals travel from the retina through the optic nerve to the brain. The brain then turns those signals into the images we see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">There is so much more to seeing than photoreceptors and electrical signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Seeing is our response to whatever stimuli we are presented with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">How we see determines how we carry on in this world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">We often say that seeing is believing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">But who\u2019s seeing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Two people separated by inches will view the same thing very differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Why is it that eyewitnesses are some of the most unreliable evidence in a court of law?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Who\u2019s seeing do you believe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Early on in life our individual cultures and environments shape how and what we see. Our realities are shaped outside of our control.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">What we believe to be true is often told to us by those with limited vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">These become our self imposed boundaries, limitations or our rule sets for reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">The key to truly seeing is challenging those boundaries and limitations and questioning what is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Truth is, if we aren&#8217;t always questioning what\u2019s \u201creal\u201d we can easily fall prey to a blind spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">There are so many factors that affect how we see that we should never stop questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Living a life being fully convinced that what you see is reality, could be the difference between the family goat and a tiger, or more likely, your success or failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am blind as a bat.&nbsp; I often imagine myself in the 13th century mistaking our family goat for a tiger and that being the end<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theunsungleader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}