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Today, we're going to be talking about how what you perceive in your life usually isn't

100% of the story and how perception is not reality and how you have these things called

cognitive distortions that actually are a mental filter on your brain that actually change

reality in front of you so that you see reality a specific way.

I want you to understand that there is no such thing as your perception being full 100% reality.

If you look at it, subjective perception is subjective reality.

Not perception is reality. People always say like, oh,

perception is reality. No, no, no, no, no, no. Subjective perception is subjective reality.

Your perception is not absolute reality. In fact, your perception usually isn't reality at all.

Because like I said, your brain filters and distorts

everything that comes in through your five senses so all of these billions and millions of bits

of information come in through your five senses and then your brain has to make some sort of sense

of it that has to put things into boxes labels, and hopefully try to make as many things

as possible fit into these boxes. And so what it does is it filters everything that goes through

your senses through conditionings, through the way you were raised, through millions and

millions of experiences that you've had in your life, these little distortions in psychology are actually

called cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are biased ways of thinking that reinforce

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