Positions of perception — the position of the observer in the internal space relative to the perceived object. These are certain points of view that a person takes when perceiving a particular life situation, as well as the states associated with this.
To see something, you have to look, but to look means always to look at something, directing your attention, and most importantly, from somewhere, from some place, from some position. What a person sees depends on the point of view, on the position from which the person is looking. By changing the position of perception, a person changes his perception of what happened.
In the synton approach, a certain standard has been developed, according to which the main positions of perception have their own conditional numbers, namely: the zero position (ignoring one’s own perception of the current situation), the first position (Personal view), the second (I am in the position of the Other), the third (the position of the third observer), fourth (systemic view), fifth position: the position of the Angel. See →
Positions of perception and understanding of the situation
A look at the same situation from different positions of perception radically changes both its vision and the emotions and experiences associated with this vision. For example, the situation: the husband is in a hurry, flew out, did not say goodbye, did not kiss. And what does it mean? Perceptual positions:
- Sample. Accordingly, as a rule, the view of an egoist: Forgotten means no respect. If you don’t kiss, it means you don’t love.
- First position (my interests): Does this relate to my goals? If I was busy with porridge and he didn’t distract me, well, that’s great. If I wanted to kiss him, then I wanted to — and I will kiss him when he comes.
- Second position (partner’s interests): He was in such a hurry that he didn’t even kiss me. My joy!
- Third position (lens): The world is a stream of neutral events. Nothing serious happened: the husband was just in a hurry.
- Fourth position: (systemic view): He ran to work, takes care of us! My favorite!
- Angel Position: My husband works for the people and this is very important. Proud of my husband!
Or, here’s a sad and very worldly story: for regular absenteeism and poor work (the traditional mess in the pantry and the dirty floor in the women’s toilet), the boss fires the crying cleaning lady Aunt Masha.
From the point of view of the boss’s personal view (the first position of perception), there are, in fact, no problems: he doesn’t need to go to the women’s toilet, his office is in order, and in general, personally, by nature he’s not that neat. Further: as a person who understands, it is not at all difficult for him to look at the situation through the eyes of Aunt Masha (second position), who has nothing to live on, and her health has nowhere to go. Moreover, if you simply look at this dismissal situation from the outside (third position), you will see the situation is obviously ugly. You will see how an old sick woman stands and cries, asks her to take pity on her and not to throw her out into the street, a healthy guy sits at the table in front of her and says some insensible words to her, perhaps polite, but from which she shrinks even more. It can be seen with the naked eye that this is quite cruel on his part.
But now the main question: what does this situation look like from the point of view of a normal production process at a company that produces elite women’s cosmetics (fourth position of perception)? Obviously, this is just the performance of the current duties of a manager who cares about the case.