Just a few weeks ago I made a blog post entitled "I Wouldn't Have Seen if If I Hadn't Believed It." I'm surprised that I need to revisit it so soon after posting it, but after the furor resulting from a side issue related to my post last week, I feel it's important to do so.
The statement that was the title of last week's post was by Marshall McLuhan, and it's something I agree with. The same idea is presented in NLP where there is a belief that "perception is projection."
The basic concept is very simple: if you have an idea or perception of the way things should be—that is, if you have a belief or set of beliefs about something—you will project that on your own actions and the