The appropriate boundaries

Seymour B. Sarason

When one becomes aware of and accepts a set of new ideas, there is the tendency to overgeneralize their significance, i.e., to perceive the world in terms of the new ideas, to restructure perceptions, to reinterpret past experience, and to see an altered future. It is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, there is the possibility that the ideas have validity, if only to the extent that other people feel compelled to take them seriously; on the other hand, they may be so idiosyncratic (however compelling to you) that you are unaware you are applying them far beyond their merit and appropriate boundaries.

Fonte: Taylor, R. J. 1984. Predation. Londres, Chapman. Trecho de livro publicado em 1977.