It is essential to be aware of and put effort into avoiding tunnel vision and selective perception.
It is essential to seek out both/all sides of all issues and thoughts and seek out facts from all sides.
This is especially important with current social issues, healthcare issues, political issues, politics & government officials, life issues, personal decisions, business issues, and many other things.
Rarely is anything perfect in life, so when making decisions, you need to consider and weigh all sides, perspectives, and facts, and maybe select the option with the least risk or the best positive potential.
This is important to guard against getting selective perception and tunnel vision.
I suggest that you teach this to your children at a young age.
If you are a teacher, teach this to your students.
If you are a manager or leader, use this and teach it to your staff.
What is selective perception?
See the following definitions directly from a simple internet google lookup to explain further:
“Selective perception is a process in which a person only perceives what he desires and sets aside or ignores other perceptions or viewpoints. There are different factors that may influence selective perception. All of a human’s previous experiences have an effect on his selective perception mechanism.
Selective perception is the tendency not to notice and more quickly forget stimuli that cause emotional discomfort and contradict our prior beliefs. For example, a teacher may have a favorite student because they are biased by in-group favoritism.”
What is tunnel vision?
What does it mean if someone has tunnel vision?
Tunnel vision means that the edges of your vision are lost, and only the central focus remains as if you were looking through a tunnel. It is “a lack of perspective caused by an intense focus on one object, leading to neglect of your surroundings and responsibilities or being closed off to other viewpoints.”
