How Experience Shapes Your Perception Of The World
Surya Gayet
This one runs as a masterclass: Surya Gayet takes your colleagues through the research and the thinking behind it, with live questions throughout.
Isn’t it obvious, why don’t they SEE it? It can be frustrating when you are presenting your work or ideas to your colleagues or supervisor, but they just don’t seem to get it. This thought-provoking session will walk you through neuroscience research and famous visual illusions, showing that your conscious perception of the world is not a copy of the outside world, but a useful ‘hallucination’ that only you have access to; it is fabricated by your brain, based on your unique knowledge and experience, and is inevitably different from what anyone else perceives.
This realization provides an important foundation to successfully empathize, communicate, and collaborate with others.
During the expert session, Surya Gayet explores the impact of experience on perception through interactive activities. He uses a Q&A session and Mentimeter app for live polls to engage the audience in sharing their perceptions and testing assumptions.
Through real-life examples and scientific studies, Surya illustrates how our expectations and past experiences influence what we see and recognize, emphasizing the importance of understanding different perspectives and effective communication.
Recognize that our perception of the world is not a direct representation of reality but rather a product of our brains' interpretations based on past experiences and expectations.
Embrace empathy by recognizing that others may perceive the world differently due to their unique backgrounds and assumptions, and make an effort to bridge potential misunderstandings through clear communication.
Expand your perspective on experience's role in shaping perception beyond just sight and sound, as it also influences senses such as smell, touch, hunger, pain, restlessness, and arousal.
In this expert session, Surya Gayet explores the intriguing topic of how our experiences shape our perception of the world around us. Surya begins by discussing the differences between our conscious perception and the way technologies like electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) record information about the world.
He argues that our perception is not a direct representation of reality but rather a product of our brains' interpretations based on our expectations and past experiences.
Surya offers various examples to illustrate this concept, starting with how our perception of objects, such as toothbrushes, can be influenced by our past experiences and expectations. He also discusses how our brain compensates for lighting conditions, making objects appear differently than they actually are in order to help us recognize them better in real life.
Interactive elements throughout the session encourage audience participation, inviting them to share their perceptions of different stimuli and guess the color of a toothbrush based on a brief image. Surya then discusses the results and explains how our knowledge influences our perceptions and helps us interact with the world effectively.
One fascinating example Surya presents is the famous dress color debate, where people perceived the same image differently due to their brains unconsciously compensating for different lighting conditions. He emphasizes that this process is automatic and not conscious, and we only experience the end result.
Moreover, Surya discusses how our perception of sensory information is influenced by our experiences, including senses like smell, touch, hunger, pain, restlessness, and arousal. He concludes by stressing the importance of language and communication in shaping our perception, as they are reciprocal processes.
Throughout the session, Surya emphasizes the significance of experience in shaping our perception and encourages empathy towards others, recognizing that their perception might be vastly different from ours. He suggests making assumptions explicit when communicating and actively asking individuals about their perspective to gain a better understanding.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
Isn’t it obvious, why don’t they SEE it? It can be frustrating when you are presenting your work or ideas to your colleagues or supervisor, but they just don’t seem to get it. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
A masterclass. Surya Gayet takes your colleagues through the subject and the reasoning behind it, and answers live questions. It is practical in what people take away, without the hour turning into an exercise class.
Surya Gayet is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 29 responses, and rate Surya personally 4.3 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Surya, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English, Dutch. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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