OK, here's a way to look at it:
Your perceptions are your misconceptions.
You open the door, and you see
bright sunlight. You're standing in front of
five thousand people, the arena is at your command.
They are waiting for you to say something
inspiring, something
useful and
meaningful, yet you, percieved to be
important,
influential and just so ... 'it', are standing there, in front of all those people and something clicks in your mind.
You are not who they say you are.
They see
you as a
leader. Maybe not a 'leader' in a common sense or conventional way of thinking. I'm not here to debate
leadership. But surely enough you are of
use to them. You can guide, direct, insire, influence. How you do that is
not important.
What you are looking for here is the reason why you are judged to the "
That Person". People who have never met you, never spoken to you seem to
like you? Want to
listen to you? Hmm. Right.
What you do realise is that you're not the person they picture you to be. You're quite far from it.
But ... does that matter to them? They perceive you as something that you may never
live up to. Sure, you may
fake it, and perhaps you have been doing that
without realising it for a while, but overall ... Their perceptions are their
misconceptions. And that was not a bunch of pretty
buzzwords.
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