Do you think a person's perception of the past is more important than the past?

Question

It is Carl Roger's idea that a person's perception of the past is more important than the past. Do you agree with that? Explain.

Answer 1

Yes i agree,i think that the way we see the past is what stays with us,if you see a sad incident as a minor event,you'll keep thinking that,the brain can't tell the difference between what actually happened and what you imagined,so if change a bad incident to a lesson ,or minimize its strength to help you,it'll be what you wanted,repetition is the secret,keep imagining the incident as if it happened differently,this applies esp. for events that are holding you back.

Answer 2

Well a persons perception of the past often changes. Key details of the past in a persons mind often gets left out, and things begin to get warped or altered. This is a bad example but you remember back in school when a rumor was going around that so and so got caught kissing some one in a closet? Well fast-forward to the end of the school day that rumor got transformed into so and so got caught having sex with some one in a closet, and now has an STD.

As far as the past itself, never changes. The past is etched in stone and theres nothing you could possible misconstrue about it.

Answer 3

I agree more important because what I think now means more than what I may have thought in the past, and you?

Answer 4

YES, Its what we believe and choose to remember that continues to have an effect on the future, other than that the PAST does not exiist in the individuals reality.