Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

2050. I recently read an article where a professor out of the University of Virginia,

Dennis Prophet, who studies perception, really opened my mind to help me understand that we perceive

the world not as not as it is but as we are he does

this study that essentially states that how we see a situation depends on how capable we are of doing that situation and how capable we think we are of doing

that situation.

So, for example, he noted after these studies that people with heavy backpacks see

steeper hills than people without backpacks.

People, because those with backpacks, it just looks heavier.

People who consumed energy drinks saw less steep hills than people who did not consume energy drinks.

People who listened to sad music saw steeper hills than those who listen to happy music.

People who were out of shape saw distances

as longer than people who were in shape. Baseball players who are on the hot streak saw the

baseball being bigger coming at them than they do when they're in a slump. And a hunter with a gun

will see a much bigger feel than a hunter with a spear because he has a much

wider range of motion and he goes on to say this quote we project our individual mental

experiences into the world and thereby mistake our mental experience to the physical world

oblivious to the shaping of perception by our sensory systems,

personal histories, goals, and expectations. In other words, like I said before, we perceive the

world not as it is, but as it is for us. We've said it many times when you change the way

you look at things, the things you look at change.

And so it's very important to understand the filter or the lens by which you're looking at the world

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