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Personality and Perception: How facets of personality can shape our reality
There’s an ancient parable about a group of blind men who had heard of a strange animal called an elephant and set out to discover it for themselves. When they come across the elephant, they strongly disagree about what it is they have found. The elephant is different for each of them; long and thin for one person and large and…erm…smelly…for another. Different versions of the story appear in texts linked to a range of different faiths and the outcome of the encounter varies; in some versions, the group realise that they’re all ‘right’ in a way; in other versions they argue it out until they come to blows.
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