âOld Habits Die Hard.â
Breaking an old habit becomes easy when we know what we are dealing with. Problem arises only when we are not able to gauge what exactly are we trying to resolve. But these days, with such hectic schedules and busy lives, we tend to ignore our own behavior and fail to analyze the patterns of what we do and why we keep doing it.
We all have one such habit in common. Some are aware, others happily ignorant about it.
Letâs find out what it isâŠ
We all meet new people. We tend to like some, tend to hate some (repulsive kind) and some donât matter at all (can be ignored or invisible kind). In short, we take the first impressions way too seriously.
They say:Â ânever judge a book by its coverâ, but letâs face it. Itâs easier to spot an attractive cover and instant likeness is inevitable. What’s inside the book is a different story altogether! (pun intended!)
We never really give it a thought. Are we wrong? Are we biased? Is it too soon to decide?
And we never really sit down to check what we have been doing all along; and more importantly, why.
There has to be a certain quality, a certain gesture, way of talking or even dressing style that we notice the most in people (usually in the first/second meetings) and one or more of such things become a part our âLikabilityâ checklist. So what it takes for somebody in order to impress us or for us to like them is actually a set of likable characteristics, functionally programmed by our unconscious brain over a long period of time. In fact, we keep updating this checklist by adding and or subtracting suitable characteristics from time to time. The logic is similar to âwhy we develop a change in taste over timeâ or âthe change in level of maturityâ or simply a part of growing up.
Yes, you guessed it right! The habit we are talking about here is âJudgmentâ. Each and every one of us has this habit. Some know the reasons behind every judgment of theirs and some find it offensive if they are tagged as âbeing judgmentalâ! Everybody does it and hence there is a popular concept of âfirst impressionsâ. And as they say âfirst impression is the last impressionâ, so everybody tries to impress everybody else in the best possible way. But this is not in our hands that whether the other person will like us or not. It just happens, we can only be at our best behavior and rest is destiny. But what actually is in our control is what we think of others and how quickly or how aptly can we figure out the other person (in order to make a correct judgment).
The point is, how well we know ourselves and our own process of reasoning. Once we analyze that, we would know how not to wrongly judge a person in order to remain unbiased towards them.
So yeah, take your time, get to know a person, donât believe what others say, donât see the world through another personâs glasses and form your own opinions.
Unless you are interviewing people to hire them. Then just ignore this post !!
Hey, exceptions are always there. Take care !! đ
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