A Perfect Example

Have you seen it?

THE video!

You mean, you did not see it? Or did you?

Susan Boyle’s per­for­mance at Britains Got Tal­ent of course!

If you have not, click here to the Youtube video.

A VERY inter­est­ing phe­nom­e­non.
And an absolutely BEAUTIFUL exam­ple of Per­cep­tion is Pro­jec­tion
(refer to video #3 of the Mini Tuto­r­ial
for those of you who fol­lowed the course)
i.e. we totally cre­ate INSIDE what we see in the out­side world.

OK, so here it goes.

She appears on stage dressed like an old crow,
there is noth­ing attrac­tive about her,
she has a strange accent,
it looks like she “styled her hair with a fire-cracker“
(French expres­sion! But I think you see what I mean…).

What good could come out of such a contestant?

EVERYONE (the jury, the pub­lic, the Youtube view­ers),
has a smile on their face…
The nasty type,
the smile you put on when you say to your­self
“She’s a goner!“
And then get ready to watch the killing.
(Ah! Don’t lie! You didn’t think she had a chance!
I didn’t…)

Then, the music starts,
she opens her mouth and starts singing.
And your jaws drop,
you stop breath­ing,
and tears come into your eyes…

Frankly, I did not think her voice was the most beau­ti­ful I ever heard,
BUT
It is the SHOCK effect!

The dif­fer­ence between
WHAT YOU EXPECT
and
WHAT YOU GET.

For me, it was a wake up call,
An absolute per­fect exam­ple of the per­cep­tion & thought processes
that, in my own mind, had made a laugh­ing stock of this woman.

If only for that,
Thank you Susan!

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Feel free to post your com­ments there
if you want to broad­cast your views.

Cheers!
Helene

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