Blind spots

Learning how to see past our own understanding

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We all have blind spots.

Blind spots are formed in places that our biases, uninformed opinions, ignorance and arrogance dwells.

Blind spots are where our views are obstructed by lack of information or understanding. Sometimes unintentionally, but sometimes because of a prideful wall which we refuse to look over.

Did you know that the average adult makes 33,000 to 35,000 total decisions each day? This includes things like, what we will eat, what we will wear, where we will go, what we will do, what we will say, and how we’ll say it. Many of our decisions happen automatically through the information we’ve subconsciously stored about what is “good” or “bad.”

But many times, our ideas about what is “good” or “bad” land in our blind spots - where our unconscious biases narrow our vision and influence our behaviors.

I know I’ve made many wrong assumptions about other people, wrong conclusions about ideas and circumstances, and wrong assessments about what is truly “right” or “wrong”, “good” or “bad” because of my own blind spots. This has caused pain and hurt to others as well as to myself….