Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about how your mind distorts reality

and I'm going to tell you how to start off by reading you a powerful quote.

The strength of man's position in the world depends on the degree of adequacy of his perception of reality.

The less adequate it is, the more disoriented and hence insecure he is, hence he is in need of idols to lean on

and thus find security.

The more adequate it is, the more he can stand on his own feet and have his center within himself."

End quote.

That's from psychologist Eric Fromm.

This is a very foundational episode. I'm going to introduce you to a very important

distinction that's going to serve you throughout the rest of your self-actualization

journey and it's going to be very eye opening for you if you stick with me

It's really worth it to stick with me on this one

The distinction that I'm going to introduce to you here is one that actually comes to us from Abraham Maslow, who is sort of the father of self-actualization. He coined the concept.

And the distinction is this deficiency

cognition versus being cognition we can also label it as deficiency perception versus being perception.

So we're going to be using the words cognition and perception

interchangeably throughout this talk.

So there's two kinds, the deficiency kind and the being kind.

Now I'm going to go into some length and give you a lot of examples and a lot of nuanced compare and

contrasting between these two so you get a real good idea. But a shorthand way to

talk about them is decognition versus B

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