Think again. You see, we don’t really perceive reality.

Here’s what I mean : right now, look around the room and notice everything that’s blue. Go ahead. Got it?Now, keep your eyes glued to this screen. That’s right, glued.

Without lifting your eyes– you can even close them– quick, think of everything in this room that is red.

Ha. Not so easy? Focused on the blue, were we?

Now look around. See a lot more red, all of a sudden?

Of the countless of pieces of visual information our eyes take in every moment, we only perceive a very few–in essence, those we were looking for.  Think of that in your day-to-day interactions: if we can miss something as obivous as color, how many subtle body language cues could be passing us by in converstaion, because we’re looking for something else?