The Trained Observer

11 August 2025

 

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Today, I will focus primarily on the first part: perceiving accurately. In my experience, the biggest obstacle to accurate perception is lack of detachment. It is a truism that who we are determines what we see, or put more colloquially “we see what we want to see.” And, unfortunately, this still true even if we this bear it in mind as we’re observing. Put another way, awareness is not sufficient to get us out of the box—we must first learn to be detached in all things.

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