Click the green flag or press space to rewatch it. I'm quite bored. :P
I know I sometimes have trouble with this, so I made an animation about it. The commonly used (and admittedly somewhat cliché) phrase "don't judge a book by its cover" means, don't think that you know a person by how they look. Or, at least, that's one way of applying it to real life. The problem with many people around my age (and with an indefinite amount of people both younger and older) is that we tend to make assumptions about people and objects based solely on their physical appearance. Whether we realize it or not, whenever we're looking at something - *anything* - we're subconsiously trying to stereotype it so that we can understand what it is. We fit things that we see into preset categories in our heads because we don't know anything about the thing, and our brains are working frantically to make the object understandable. So, basically, you look at a lamp and: "Oh. It's a lamp." That's what you're consiously thinking, anyway. Offstage, your mind has already sorted the lamp into a category: perhaps "household furniture" or "light suppliments" or something of the sort. But maybe that lamp isn't what you think it is. Maybe it's actually a parasol that someone cut and worked into the shape of a lamp. Maybe it's an air humidifier, but you can't see it underneath the decorative lampshade cover. Or maybe it's not an appliance at all! Maybe it's one of those hyperrealistic clay sculptures by Ron Mueck or something. You can never be sure until you completely get to know the person or object. ...WOW, that was really long. Sorry about that. I'm such a rambler sometimes... :P And because I ramble so much, I may have gotten something jumbled up and/or incorrect. If you see something wrong with the psychological breakdown up there, let me know. I'm not an expert, this is just how I believe the process works. :)
