I haven’t posted much in a while. I haven’t drawn much either. Been mostly busy with classes when I’m not working (stats is going to be the end of me). I thought it might be fun to through up some of my assignment entries for a Psyc class I’m taking.

For these journal assignments we have to start a sentence with a certain phrase (I realized… in this case) and expand on something we’ve read in the chapter. Here’s my entry on first impressions:

I realized that first impressions are powerful and at times out of your control. This is a fairly obvious assessment but the books seems to articulate it well. Often times someone can build a perception of you before you’ve even met, which is something we’ve probably all experienced.

We all think we have an initial sense of someone’s intentions or motivations; the gut feeling when meeting someone for the first time. That being the case, it’s worth mentioning that people who are really aware of this subconscious perception have an opportunity to change how people perceive them for the better or worse.

A fun example is the russian scam trick as performed here by Derren Brown.

I guess it’s important to remember that your ‘gut’ feeling is important, but to understand your conscious faults and limitations. Things often aren’t what they seem; don’t judge a book by it’s cover; so on and so forth…