Seeing Past What You Want to See

How to take in people, places, and events as they are.

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By Amir Hamouda

Do you remember when you’d see a peer perform whether it be in a band, on stage, giving a speech, or speaking in front of a group, and think “wow, they really are talented?” It can often seem that other people have an easier go at things, to the objective observer other…