I love movies. And based on annual ticket sales in movie theaters of about ten billion dollars it appears I’m not alone.
I like big screen movies. I like small short movies. Live action, animated, professionally produced, little family vignettes created from my phone. Even non-moving images like the old slides on our shelf that require the carousel slide projector (my apologies to those of you born since the 80’s. You may have to ask an older person about carousel projectors).
But, to be enjoyed, they all need projectors. Even if that projector is the screen on my smartphone, the digital file is not very enjoyable until it is projected. Projectors have a unique property, they can only project an image is has already been produced by someone. Maybe it was the camera on my phone. Maybe it was the old Kodachrome film in my camera. Maybe it was a professional production with big name producers, directors and actors. Everything that gets projected is an image that someone created or imagined.
And therein lies the dangers of projectors.
When you project intent on another person, you’re only projecting images that you’ve created in your own mind. It really has nothing to do with their intention or belief system, it has all to do with what you believe their intention to be.
When someone attributes behavior to certain reasons:
- They said that because they always lie.
- They really don’t like that person.
- They never take accountability for their own behavior.
my assumptions are those attributes are projections. It reflects how they would behave in that situation, not necessary why the other person is behaving that way.
Be careful how you may be projecting your beliefs and intentions on other people. Someone may see it as the projection of the movie playing in your own head.
