All tagged Forming our perspectives
Déformation professionnelle is the tendency to look at people, events and situations from the vantage point (or filter) of our own profession or expertise or training.
This is understandable because we put a lot of our lives into that training and development, and if we believe in what we do, we consider that worldview ‘defining’.
It’s generally difficult for us to hold two contrasting ideas in our heads.
We have a tendency to move towards a specific interpretation, whether it relates to events, places or people. Something is either good or bad, someone is either smart or stupid, people should or should not be trusted.
Arsene Wenger said this in response to Alex Ferguson’s comment that his team were the best in the Premier league back in the early 2000’s.
They weren’t. (Editor’s note: possible writer’s bias at play here.)
But the fact is, that people really do think that. And it’s not an unnatural or even irrational thought to have.
