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Alter Your Reality by Altering Your Perception
What you see is what there is…
Years ago, in a bar in Johannesburg, I got talking to a group of locals and as the conversation unraveled, one of the girls told me that her life dream was to visit London. When I asked her why didn’t she go, she said: “too dangerous”
London? Really?
She lived in one of the most dangerous cities on the planet, where everybody carries a gun for self-defense, all cars are bulletproof and most houses are bunkers with electric fences, armed guards, etc.
In London, there is not a lot of crime considering the size, and there are no guns, not even for the police! It’s pretty safe.
Your perception is your reality
That got me thinking. If that woman, who seemed fairly intelligent, articulated, and knowledgeable can get her perception so wrong, maybe she is not the only one, maybe we all have gaps and biases that distort reality in a way that we can’t even begin to realize.
Maybe I’ve been wrong about a lot of things I’ve considered real.
What if I’ve chosen to live my life following the wrong map?
What if everything I was ever told was wrong?
