What You See Is What You Believe: Why Perspective Changes Everything
About This Episode
In this Sunny Side Up episode, Jessie May explores how perspective influences perception, and why your emotional state directly shapes the way you interpret the world around you. Through reflection and science-backed insight, this conversation highlights how the brain reinforces existing beliefs, and how nervous system regulation can expand clarity, creativity, and aligned decision-making.
This episode invites you to pause between stimulus and response, reclaim authorship of your experience, and recognize that perspective is not fixed, but something you can consciously refine.
What You’ll Learn
How emotional state shapes perception and physiology
Why the brain reinforces existing beliefs through cognitive bias
The difference between reacting and responding
How nervous system regulation expands clarity
The role of perspective in aligned decision-making
Reflective prompts to shift how you interpret experience
Why Listen Now
You feel stuck in reactive patterns
You want clearer, more grounded decisions
You’re navigating uncertainty or emotional overwhelm
You want to respond instead of react
You’re seeking resilience through awareness
Come listen in, and if this episode resonates, share it with someone learning to lead from clarity. Sometimes the greatest shift begins with a new lens.
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Resource(s):
American Psychological Association: Psychological Influences on Decision Making
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Perceptual Experience and Perceptual Justification
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