It is all about PERCEPTION!

John, Jenny and Ben wanted to do an experiment about human perceptions. So, they came together and discussed a plan and tried it out on their colleague, Susan.

Susan, as usual, went to the office earlier than her colleagues. But, there was one morning, when John came in to the office, he looked at Susan and told her, "Susan, you look pale. Are you sick?" Susan would stare at John and quickly deny it.

Later in the morning, Jenny came along and casually asked Susan, "Susan, are you alright? You don't look too good today!". She might just reply, "I am okay?". But, in her mind, she would start to wonder if she was really sick because John asked her the same question earlier.

After lunch break, Ben walked past her cubicle and said, "Susan, are you not feeling well?" This time round, she would begin to believe that she was sick because three persons have said that she looked sick. Before the day ended, she had fallen sick!!! This is how the mind works.

It is said that in ancient China, a man went to tell the emperor that there was a tiger on the street, the emperor in the first instance, brushed it off and thought that the man was crazy. Later on, another man went to tell the emperor the same thing, the emperor then thought that there might be some truth in what the man said because he had heard it earlier on. Then, the third man came running and panting, told the emperor very seriously that there was a tiger on the street, this time round, the emperor believed it to be true.

Recent research about the perception of truth has found that when we hear something three times or more, we tend to accept it as truth.