{"id":1487,"date":"2019-08-10T22:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2019-08-10T22:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:12:48","slug":"the%e2%80%8b-universal-truth-is-simply-a-case-of-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/the%e2%80%8b-universal-truth-is-simply-a-case-of-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The&#8221;\u200b (Universal) Truth is Simply a Case of Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Quite often I see reference to &#8220;the truth&#8221; or &#8220;the universal truth&#8221; written in LinkedIn articles\/ posts. These expressions fascinate me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The fact of the matter is that there is no such phenomenon as a &#8220;single truth that is applicable to all human beings&#8221;. Such a notion is a fallacy &#8211; perhaps one of the greatest fallacies of all time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rather, within each of us we have values\/ beliefs\/ perceptions that we hold to be true for ourselves, and so when we share\/ speak the truth, we communicate a point of view that aligns to (stems from) &#8220;<strong>our\u00a0<\/strong>truth&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<strong>our<\/strong>\u00a0honest opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So &#8220;the truth&#8221;, like any other human perception, varies from individual to individual. The best that we can share with the world is &#8220;<strong>our truthful opinion<\/strong>&#8220;, which will then be interpreted\/ construed\/ judged by recipients to hold whatever level\/ degree of truth that they deem is the case. And despite the degree of honesty of our expressed opinion, those privy to our message will form their own perception\/ judgement as to level of honesty contained within.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">At the end of the day people will believe what they wish to believe. What matters most is that when we do offer a point of view, then we provide our honest perspective &#8211; i.e. our truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I just wanted to get the above off my chest, hopefully to help people see that there is no such phenomenon as &#8220;the truth&#8221;; instead each of us has &#8220;a truth&#8221; that we know to be true for ourselves, and this truth varies from individual to individual.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often I see reference to &#8220;the truth&#8221; or &#8220;the universal truth&#8221; written in LinkedIn articles\/ posts. These expressions fascinate me. The fact of the matter is that there is no such phenomenon as a &#8220;single truth that is applicable to all human beings&#8221;. Such a notion is a fallacy &#8211; perhaps one of the greatest fallacies of all time. Rather, within each of us we have values\/ beliefs\/ perceptions that we hold to be true for ourselves, and so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}