Welcome to The Your World Within Podcast. I'm Eddie Panero.

And today's episode is all about mindset.

Henry David Thoreau has a quote.

He says, it's not what you look at, it's what you see.

Well, all four speeches in today's episode highlight the idea that perspective is manufactured,

that the world consists of objects waiting for our subjectivity to

provide life, to provide meaning, and to tell the story that we so desperately want to tell.

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Okay. world within. And now, let some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

I've always found this interesting, this idea, how the same subject, same situation, or occurrence can be interpreted so differently? It can plant the seeds for such different outcomes.

Like Yeshimi and Koga mentioned in their book,

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