People think somebody who really sees through projections is really smart because they come up with really cool, unique, innovative ideas, or they act in a way that's seemingly not normal, but yet it works.

And it's not so much, really, that they're smart or not smart.

It's that they don't see the same level of limitation on everything that

somebody who fully boss into their projections sees.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves

and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kisler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

Today we're going to talk about projections. So Joe, you've talked about projections a lot in

our courses, this idea that from our past experience, we create these beliefs that we carry

into the present and that this shapes our reality in the moment.

And I'd like to get into that a little bit further today.

So, Joe, what are projections?

It is such a complicated subject because the word projection is used for many things, right?

So there's the psychological projection, which is somewhat stems from like

Young's work and some other psychologists. And that's this idea that the parts of ourselves that

we can't own, the parts of ourselves that are either good or bad, but that we can't have full ownership over. We project

onto other people. And this is something that happens when you're deeply triggered. So an easy way

to look at this just briefly is you look at most politicians. And if you see them like really just accusing somebody else of something you can see a way in which that is true about what they're doing as well so or if you're dealing with somebody they're like oh my god they're so arrogant like that comment in itself is right? It's like as if you can presume to know

what their reality is. So that's projecting the unknown parts of ourselves. And it can be

positive things too, like, oh my gosh, they're so smart. They're so, they understand everything

and I don't. That can also be unowned parts of ourselves, positive unowned parts of ourselves that we then project onto other people.

So there's that.

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