My Biggest Perspective Change

Here I am captured in this irritating street where all I can do is listen to music and look at Facebook. I am waiting for cars to start moving and continue with their destination. Little do I know that ahead of me is a two hour traffic. I am already tired, bored, and furious. I cannot believe I took this road home instead of my usual route. Why do I have to try new things? I should stick to what I know. While I sit in the drivers’ sit I am still wondering why I had the bright idea of taking a new way home, a way that I had little knowledge of.

Jonathan Haidt, associate professor of psychology, in his essay “The Dangers of Naïve Realism,” explains how naïve realism influences relationships between people and between groups. Haidt argues that naïve realism causes a negative effect on relationships because people do not understand that others vary in perspectives. Those who favor their own views, are not open to other interpretations. Naïve realists are consumed in the idea that they are always right and that others must agree with their points of view; therefore, if others disagree with their views they are viewed to be “naïve.” Although naïve realism can allow people to, leads to disagreements between individuals and groups.

In the essay “The Loss of the Creature”, Walker Percy highlights his observations on how people perceive the world. He argues that we have lost original, self-driven learning because people only measure their experiences based on other people’s expectations. He states how these preconceived expectations of our experiences give way to a symbolic complex. This complex is set by what people or “Layman” believe the experts have set. Therefore, their experience is only validated if people feel that they have met those criteria. He believes that people can only have a true experience if they forgo all those preconceived expectations and biases. Only then can people truly experience something at face value.

Invariably, after a frantic hour of aggressive and dangerous driving, I would arrive with an apology, explaining that the highway was unusually congested. The board chairman always graciously assured me that the main thing was that I arrived safely. Still, I had held things up, and the other board members, who had arrived on time, were clearly not thrilled. Deep down I knew that the highway traffic was not the real issue."

After reading “Driving While Stupid,” by Dave Barry, he tells us about some of his experience with seeing bad drivers. Barry uses many old experiences while being in Miami, China, Boston, and Argentina. I agree with this statement because in almost every city I been in the driving was terrible. Everyone, in some way or another, has witnessed people drive very stupid and reckless. Barry indicated that some drivers use insane driving techniques. These include driving very fast, failure of the utilization of headlights at night, and having distractions for the view of the drivers. He says that the drivers do not have a sequence for navigation since some are involved in phone calls, eating, reading, changing CDs, crowd surface makeup, etc. This is a common thing for teens and even adults to be distracted behind the wheel. He drove through various cities where the traffic laws are constantly being violated. For example, has only one traffic law, which is “No driver may ever be behind any other driver.” In his opinion, Miami drivers are the worst drivers that he has ever witness because of the guy who was driving on 1-95. He was watching videos on his phone and was clearly not paying attention to the road or any other drivers. This does not only affect him but also the other people around him. He was not be cautious of the road and putting his and others lives in danger.

“[P]lowing through humongous traffic snarls… all aggressively vying for the same space… and where the bus driver would sometimes physically push pedestrians out of the way…with the bus” (Barry,572). All of Barry’s first had experiences lead up to his worst one of all

It was important for this artifact to target mostly young adults because they are new drivers who think the world is theirs now, but it was also important because there is a popular commonplace amongst teens where they think they’re invincible and that nothing bad could ever happen to them. This video, as heart wrenching and tear-jerking as it is, proves a point. No one is exempt from being hurt, or even killed, when it comes to distracted driving, and the four areas of Stasis Theory that I discussed persuaded me, and hopefully other audience members as well, that it can

From Aristotle to C.S. Lewis, the philosophers of our time have contributed their views on the compelling concept of knowledge that shaped our understanding of science. They taught us the fundamentals of arguing on what is proven to be truthful and what is considered the basic means of principles of opinion. Both of these fundamental skill sets has defined the various types of beliefs that people adopt as their own in today’s time. Out of the many beliefs that support the ideals of truth and the matter of opinion in relation to science are realism and anti-realism. Both terms are involved in the different viewpoints of criticizing types of perceptions, practices and conceptual themes in relation to reality.

You encounter a lot of people at a red light, looking left, right, infront, and behind you, there's few that you want to see, the few you don’t want to see, and the lot that doesn’t matter if you see. As everyone tries to go on there way people try to be the best they can, most are passive trying to get on their way, but there's the people that are slow and aggressive. People that you know are trying to be slow and aggressive on purpose and some that have no clue that there slow or aggressive. But as all the stuff that happens around the good and the bad you try to focus on a green light.

Improbable’s analyzation of psychological experiments in Opening Skinner’s Box is not only amusing and informative; it is profound and can bolster percipience of ourselves and others. The historical studies exhibited are applicable to individuals, communities, and governments alike. The production beautifully adds pathos to logos to persuade us to incorporate their teachings. The performance presented Dr. Bruce Alexander’s Rat Park to illustrate that drug abuse is not solely attributed to drugs, but also circumstances and living conditions.

The author’s illustration shows confidence in his knowledge of crazy drivers. I empathies with Dave Barry (2014) as I read, “I have ridden in a taxi in the Argentinean city of Mar del Plata (literally, ``Cover your eyes''), where (a) nobody ever drives slower than 65 miles per hour, including inside parking garages, and (b) at night, many motorists drive with their headlights off, because-a taxi driver told me this, and he was absolutely serious-this

There are three types of drivers in this world: competent, overcautious, and reckless. After driving for many years in frustrating rush hour traffic, one might find there are three types of drivers, competent drivers who keep the flow going, over cautious drivers who cause slow and backed up traffic, and reckless drivers who weave in and out of traffic causing one near death experience after another. Trying to sort out what type of driver a person might be is an extremely challenging task. In a person's own mind, they think they are the aggressive type of driver, or the cautious type, but no one will ever admit that they are reckless kind. In most cases they’re too oblivious to these classifications and all other

People often exaggerate their ability of detection in IB situations. Levin and Angelone (2008) found that people vastly exaggerated their detection ability in an experiment they conducted. The experiment consisted of asking people whether they think they would see the gorilla in the Simons and Chabris experiment. 88% of the participants within the experiment said they would see it in comparison to what was found in that experiment: 42% of people saw the gorilla. Similarly, Jaeger, Levin

My friends and I knew that local police officers would often pull over drivers for traveling only ten miles over the speed limit. When my friends pointed out that I was traveling 75 mph, I smirked at them and watched the needle in my speedometer push past 85. My smirk was a tacit recognition of the risks of my behavior. Disregarding these risks created the illusion that I was indifferent towards my own recklessness. My friends laughed in response to my increasing speed, and I beamed. Their approval kept me going

that law enforcements do not use enough evidence and therefore should think broadly and explore ways to prove when they are making a decision. Life of every individual is very precious; thereby, careful thinking and observation is a necessity while making a decision and not accusing innocents which can destroy their whole life. After learning the key findings of warning signs it got easier for them to differentiate science from pseudoscience which could help them think broadly in different directions and not just be biased on their own opinions, assumptions and judgement. Similarly, online hearing or watching claims should particularly be paid attention, which can be proven with evidence and do not ever believe that making money easy can solve