Logic without Perception is nowhere? Everywhere?

Hello guys it’s been more than 2-3 weeks that I have not posted anything as I was looking for nice story for this New Year 2013. Once again I wish you a very happy and prosperous new year. Hope you have you guys are done with “Keeping new year’s resolutions” and started your journey towards your target. I will be writing about “How to keep best new year’s Resolution’s” next weekend.

Coming to this post I think you are aware of Logic and perception in fact more about logic and always inclined to use logic than the other. In general we don’t give importance to (in fact we don’t even know what perception is) as our mind is trained to use logic as a main weapon so we do. There is nothing wrong of you in it. Logic works perfectly well but not enough.

In my view both are very much important and today I am going to post a story about perception over logic. We always have a bad habit of thinking logically without consider perception. Of course logic is very important but perception plays vital role in understanding a situation or event. It also helps in making different solutions in different aspects with same input.

If you see the dictionary meaning of perception

Perception: Noun

1) The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses2) The state of being or process of becoming aware of something in such a way

If you see the dictionary meaning of Logic

Logic: Noun1) Reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity

On the whole “Perception is the organization, identification and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment”

So now to tell the importance of Perception over logic here is a story from EDWARD DEBONO in his book “Think Before it’s too late”

In Australia, a five-year-old boy called Johnny was offered a choice by his friends between a one-dollar coin and a two-dollar coin. The one-dollar coin was much bigger than two-dollar coin. Johnny took the bigger coin. His friends laughed and giggled at Johnny’s stupidity. This continued, whenever they wanted to make a fool of Johnny, they would offer him the same choice. He never learned. He always chose the larger coin.

One day an adult saw this and felt sorry for Johnny. He called Johnny over and told that the smaller coin, even though smaller, was actually worth twice as the bigger coin.

Johnny smiled and thanked him politely and then said: I know very that much. But how many more times would they have offered me the coins if I had chosen the two dollars the first time?

This is “matter of perception”! How you take the situation (in time) and resolve it efficiently. If you apply logic over here it is perfectly well ( as you get two dollars at once). But it is not enough.

Have a nice day all! See you next week!

Bye!