Predator Awareness

In general you do not objectively survey your world. Rather, your experiences and expectations influence creation of your mind-sets. Typically we are all quick to form and resist change of our mind. Although neither good nor bad, under certain circumstances this may become problematic. One such circumstances is if you are in the presence of a psychopath.

Perception is based on both awareness and understanding and humans tend to perceive what they expect to, as a result making premature conclusions that are potentially dangerous. A psychopath reaps many rewards from your innocently false perceptions of their true nature.

What you remember depends upon what you believe. The brain does not objectively record data. Instead, memories are subjective interpretations, rarely reinterpreted even when circumstances change. New information becomes assimilated with old, which has more influence on the new than vice versa. People tend to remember positives and forget negatives. Psychopaths are experts at reinforcing their positives while having you brush past their negatives.

Most cognitive functioning occurs outside your conscious awareness, including perception, information processing, memory, and some methods of decision making. You make decisions by the intuitive and/or the rational process.

Intuition falls between the automatic operations of perception and the deliberate processes of reasoning. Intuition is not a paranormal ability or a form of extrasensory perception, although it operates at a below-consciousness level. However, it is still based on normal sensory input.

Automatic and effortless, intuition also is fast and powerful and learned slowly. Because of its implicit nature, intuition is difficult to control or modify, can be influenced by emotion, and often is error prone. Typically, intuition involves the use of cognitive shortcuts. By contrast, reasoning is slow and requires effort, vulnerable to interference, and easily disrupted. But, it is flexible and controllable and can overrule intuition.

Different situations require different types of judgment. With unreliable and incomplete data or under chaotic and uncertain conditions, intuitive decision making is preferable. Therefore, with reliable and adequate data and time for proper analysis, reasoning produces the best results.

Keeping all of the foregoing in mind, psychopaths take advantage of the fact that most of us do not assess them impartially. Practice remaining impartial and open-minded in an effort to accurately assess when a psychopath is in your presence. If your intuition is telling you that something is not quite right with an individual, take a step back and take your time with an effort of slow reasoning.

Objectively and tenaciously review your negative perceptions of an individual in an effort to neutralize a potential psychopath’s advantage. You may need to fight that natural desire to “see the good” in everybody. That is the point to Predator Awareness ~ battling preconceived perceptions that may lead you to immeasurable harm.

Life is not fair! But it definitely is GOOD.

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