The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People By Stephen R. Covey

The matter of truth and perception are two concepts in which the definition changes depending on the individual. In the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the author Stephen R. Covey speaks of an experience at the Harvard business School where and instructor demonstrated how two people can have a different outlook, yet both be right. Two variations of the same picture were given to two sides of the classroom and asked what was seen, both sides had different answers. The students argued and neither side could come to an agreement that both arguments were correct; except for a few students who tried to see the alternate perspective. What each individual saw was a perspective of the truth and because of that the opinion would not change. Theo E.J Wilson, an internet star, whom became famous by posting a video by telling the thoughts of a black man living in an “alt-right” world. After many video posts, noticing the “internet trolls” who would leave colorful racial slurs and protesting opinions; curiosity began to grow because the arguments being made by the supremacists contained some very in-valid information. The information being fed to each individual is a marketing tactic created to give everyone exactly what wants to be heard. Theo James took it as a challenge to go undercover as Lucius25, white supremacist tyrant, and by programming a new algorithm the journey began. Theo began to feel a familiar emotion, fear, the fear of being wiped out; a race becoming nonexistent from the violence the world has shown. In this journey Theo started to feel sympathy as well. Each sides truth was different due to the perception in which everything was being seen. Emotion triggers expectations about situations making it a habit to perceive that situation based off the emotions being felt at the moment. Which explains the actions being made by the tyrants, who search the internet for targets as well as those who are receiving the aggravation. Perception is a mixture of all three constituents- mental, physical, and emotional which all contribute into shaping reality. The mental, physical, …show more content…
Everyone’s perspective is a representation of those values and which also changed the definition of truth as well as the quality of it. Quality of truth is determined on perspective in which it is seen because one must choose the degree of excellence it will be held art. For example, if someone were to apologize, was the apology sincere; that is all based off the quality in which one wants to set it at. Which as mentioned, is filtered through the beliefs one carries. This can all be connected to the Pygmalion effect, in which, if expectations high expectations are expected it is lead to an increase of performance value while on the other hand, the Golem effect, if low expectations are expected then a decrease in performance is to be expected. If one is to believe that the quality of someone’s truth is not valid it can lead to a decrease in sincerity in the future. As well as, if the quality of someone’s truth is believed to be genuine the degree of excellence can increase. Truth and perspective are Natural Laws of life that have helped shape each individual because it harmonizes with the existing beliefs and values each person carries. They don’t exist on their own because they are connected our inner voice which in affect changes as time passes for the reason that it is all seen through the eye of the