Your
perception of distance has a profound effect on your thinking and decision
making. When a tragedy occurs in a
particular neighbourhood people often say we didn’t expect that ‘here’. We are so used to hearing about awful things
happening in distant places but when it happens in our own neighbourhood we are
far more shocked. This is very
understandable. The closer an incident
is to us the more we feel that it could have happened to us. However, it is interesting how we
unconsciously transfer this thinking to abstract concepts like time and
ownership, and it can create the Thinking Trap of Distance.
