Should we allow other people's limited perception to define us?

Answer 1

Of course not, but so many are in that prison and don't even know where they are.

Answer 2

Even if we thought the other's perception is not limited, there is no case to let that define us conclusively. There are two major issues here.

Firstly, any perception is bound to be limited as well as slanted by the very being of the person perceiving. The outcome can neither have total integrity nor complete accuracy.

Secondly, no individual can be defined... even if our being may be finite, it is so dynamic as well as inconsistent that any attempt to define would only come a cropper. Even our own attempt to understand ourselves can never succeed totally because we are in a process of change every moment and the direction or rate of change is unpredictable since each next moment brings in a new experience having its own influence and impact.

Human beings are no concept or thing to be defined either by themselves or others... they can only to be perceived and experienced with a flexible open mind.

Answer 3

For me, the question is not whether I should allow it, but whether it happens regardless.

I think it does. I'm willing to stick my neck out and say that our experience defines us significantly. I would even say that no experience fails to function definitively. Therefore, insofar as other people's perceptions enter into our experience, they definitively contribute.

Probably you took that into account when you asked your question. We're probably on the same page, so to speak, if I add that I do not believe it is wise to place more mental or emotional attention on something than is its due. The main idea is to place focused, full attention on something in order to understand it, arrive at a decision, do something over it, or whatever is the case, and then to place attention elsewhere.

The perceptions of others make a great example. If people criticize you, place your attention on it. Think it through. Is the person maybe correct? Get what you can get out of it. If there is something to get, make a decision, and then give it no more attention.

This way, you turn the naturally definitive function of the experience to your advantage, and then in placing your attention eslewhere you turn prevent it from continuing to exert definitive influence.

Answer 4

Never. Limited perception is another way of saying shallow, and that should not be allowed to define or describe anything.

Answer 5

yes we should. because the only thing that matters in the end is how we perceive ourselves and others.
just because we donot allow other people's limited perception to define us, we fight, we kill, and there are wars.

those who will change their perceptions without their ego interfering them, those people are the only ones whom we should not allow. not allowing people other than these, would Be a waste of time.

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Answer 6

The only person who knows the whole you is you. Therefore you are the only person who can define who you are and what you become.

We are all different people to each person we meet. Some people in my circle think I am a serious person with no sense of humour. Others will tell you I have a huge sense of humour and take nothing seriously.

We become the person we need to be with everyone we meet and can even be both extremes in the same room with different people without compromising who we truly are because all other people see is facets of us.

To see and understand the whole person would require them to become us, at least for a while.

Answer 7

other people's perceptions, limited or otherwise, do define us whether we like it or not and regardless of what we think we can allow or disallow.

This does not mean, however, that we do not also define ourselves.

The problem with your question is that it assumes that individuals are singularly determined, when in fact each human being is the product of a multiplicity of determinations stemming from a multiplicity of forces both internal and external to that human being.

Answer 8

Should we allow ourselves not to be affected by limited perception of others?

No matter who defines us, we cannot be defined into one category or the other...

Peace and Love~

Answer 9

Other people's limited perception of us defines us to them but not to ourselves.Of course, we cannot dictate what our definition would be for them.Let us all know ourselves more clearly and convincingly, and we would then love what others have to say about us. It could then reveal a part of us , hitherto unknown to us.
In any case even our own projection of us, is still incomplete and unsatisfactory to ourselves and one should always strive hard to have a more complete and a better picture of himself/herself.

Answer 10

limited perception ? your opinion of yourself is not necessarily what others think, after all we very rarely see ourselves as others see us. Each persons definition of another is, after all, only an opinion, we could of course, place everyone in little boxes, for instance all white people are racist, all black people are thieves and all Muslims are killers, most people would recognise it as utter nonsense of course but someone could offer it as an opinion and in their eyes it is true. As for allowing it, in a democracy free speech is allowed, providing it is within bounds. I could say that the American President is an idiot, this opinion could be shared by many, but it may not be true.

Answer 11

They have all the right to describe what a person or thing it may be. Disallowing them is curbing their rights to freedom. Having limited perception must not be deprived of one's right to freedom of expression. This is a clear violation of the Bill of Rights provided for under the Constitution that is their freedom of expression.