My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to The Christopher Peter Review.

One of the easiest thing people do in this world is see a gap in others. See mistakes or missteps others make and dissect these moments in a manner to highlight our own self belief in our own intelligence. How can this person have done this or done that when it was so obvious the choices he or she should have made. We all personally believe that we know what someone else should have done with their lives, their careers, or daily situations.

Sometimes we lose this perspective when looking at people who are more successful than we believe they should be. This person must have done some immoral action to gain an advantage that we did not do. This person got there because of their race, gender, other demographic, or network. There between who we perceive them to be and how they got be where they are in life. So we fill in the blanks to make ourselves feel better about our situations.

That is life in America and really any society for the most part. Our reality is not always real, but our perception of what must have took place in order to feel better or less worse about our own lives. That is how we get out of bed each day. Now, I am not trying to make the impression that we are all purposefully malice individuals. Many times people do not act on their thoughts. We do not treat someone differently because we think they have ill gotten gains. We do not help someone even if we believe there is a correction that could change their perceived situation.

My point is that a birds eye view is not always the reality that individual is really facing. Maybe that person who has a better title than we have benefited from performing well on visible projects, affording him or her a fast track through no real fault of their own. They had an opportunity and took advantage of it. Maybe that person who we think is making all the wrong decisions has a host of other factors that make these straight forward decisions not so straight forward.

In this podcast episode, Managing Reality, I focus on discussing how we are impacted by marketing in our lives. Many times we think we are behaving in rational manners, but are really reacting to exposures to marketing promotions, societal engineering, socialization, and other factors that influence our decision making in a not so straight forward manner. At times, we need to challenge our norms, default positions, and instinctive actions to understand why these exist for us and if they really belong in our respective lives.

Please experience this podcast episode below, where I also discuss inflation as well as other current events.