Are your perceptions absolute? Do you trust what you can see with your own eyes? When your intuitive thinking is engaged, is it really processing everything correctly?
Consider the below:
Did you automatically catch the repeated word in the phrases? How often are you proofreading a document and missing the minor typos, despite your computer software underlining them to catch your attention? This is just a simple example of how unreliable our perceptions can be. The fallibility generally falls upon our intuitive mode of thinking as well.
Look at the diagram with the lines and decide which horizontal line is longer. Because of the direction of the arrows on the ends, we continually perceive one being longer than the other. Even after measuring and proving they are the same length, our intuitive thinking continues to see it differently. You can switch modes and concentrate to see them as the same length, but that takes continual effort.
If false perceptions on a simple issue can be so wrong, what about the complex problems? Partial information or lack of context can cause the observers to have a complete opposite conclusion from what is really true.
In a previous post on modes of thinking, it was mentioned that attentive and concentrated thinking takes more effort and energy. It is worth noting that when such focus on one thing also reduces perception of other things going on at the same time. This short video will illustrate that point:
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