So here in this video I would just like to continue to unpack how it is that we each experience life
on a day to day basis.
Gone back a couple of minutes ago I do believe that I may have suggested that us human beings we are
meaning making machines with already explored the idea that nothing happens in isolation.
And if you think about it the quality of our life is always going to be determined and heavily impacted
by the quality of our thinking.
I'm hoping that you can at least see the snow in the last video.
We'll look at how the quality of your thinking and how it is that we interpret life's events or impact
how it is that we emotionally experience life which will then impact the actions or the decisions that
we take or don't take or how we behave which then rules on to impact and influence the outcomes that
we experience in life which we as human beings we will then go on to have more thoughts about.
And this is the parsec the perpetual cycle of life that if we are not aware of many people can get stuck
in for anything up to a lifetime we end up blaming other people situations circumstances life our parents
God the politicians religion for why it is there lives haven't gone the way that we fundamentally want
them to go.
So here in this video all I really want to do is just play around with here just a little bit if that's
okay.
Just so we can get a little bit clearer on how it is that we arrive at conclusions and how it is that
we are all as I've mentioned.
Meaning making machines how it is we're all assigning labels and meanings onto all things of the time.
So just to get started right just for your warm up session here.
How about if I was to go well I guess.
What would that mean.
What would that mean to you.
We may be thinking about Winston Churchill.
Well maybe thinking about victory we may be thinking about peace we may be thinking about something
like that.
We could be thinking about anything whatsoever.
But this is generally throughout the world embraced as a symbol of victory or peace.
Something like that I think of as a source here today with the end of this second world war.
I think it was after Didi's or something like that.
But how about boats right.
If I was then just to make a minor modification here.
Right.
Just.
No.
What does it mean.
All right.
I'm still sticking my two fingers up in the air.
All right.
But let's just turn round a little bit.
What does this mean.
Does this mean something this a little bit different than that.
Well all I'm doing is putting up my two fingers in the air.
I don't mean anything by it.
But here's the thing.
You on this unconscious level or prouty's on a conscious level no just because we're talking about it
are assigning meaning to this life event.
What is that I'm doing.
No what I am going to guarantee is I don't want to be nasty to you here.
That is not my intention.
My intention is just to illustrate a point.
But what you're doing is you are going to be assigning some meaning on to that.
Whether it's now or whether it start with one of the two.
And this is what we are all doing all of the time.
This is all to do with our perception the conclusions the assumptions the judgment calls that we make
which is sometimes we do make when we don't even have all the facts.
I mean if you think about the only way that we're ever going to know what on a person means when they
say and do the things that they say and do would be if we asked them.
But how often do we do it.
I mean come on if we're going to be honest here we'll jump to conclusions we'll assume the worst one
we off other people for the reasons that I mentioned earlier on because we were very very quickly judge
other people by their actions and by their behaviour.
Whereas when it comes to ourselves we judge ourselves by our motives.
So I'm not going to judge myself harshly here because I know that my motives are pure.
I'm just trying to illustrate the point but you may be getting totally offended right now.
Kane You're unprofessional.
How dare you do that to me is the one you're religious and cultural beliefs and preferences.
You could be doing an absolute fizzy right.
No.
So that's example number one.
How about if we were to then look at example number two.
No.
This is a plus.
It's a plus sign.
No what I could ask you right now is you know are you a plus or minus in the world.
Do you give birth or do you take it the way.
Right.
Are you a positive influential member of society.
Or are you just negative.
Do you contribute towards people's lives or are you one of those leeches that just takes and takes and
takes and never feels like they have enough to ever give back.
What sort of mindset.
Yeah.
But let's just assume that this is a positive.
We all love positive things don't we.
If you think about it one plus one equals increase sometimes inside of our minds we can see that one
plus one equals whatever we want.
Why.
Because it's going to be our perception that if we're not we're the best.
And we're never going or how we might otherwise be getting things wrong.
But let's just say that I was to make a couple of minor modifications with this little cross in the
same way that I made a couple of minor modifications with my fingers.
What would then happen if I was just turned Who.
Hello.
Couple lines here and then a little couple of lines here.
And then a little couple of flings there.
And then a little couple of lines there.
I saw a bulk.
So just a little bit just like that.
Right.
And then I was just to put the pen away and turn back.
Look at the camera and then look at you look at the year and then look at the board and then start nodding
my head yeah.
That's right.
That is absolutely right.
Or yeah I was totally right.
Yeah.
That's totally right.
How do you feel about that now.
All right.
Are you assuming the worst of me because all I'm doing is I'm just agreeing with something inside of
my mind that I said Around about 45 minutes ago.
All right.
Yes I'm just just drawn this thing on the board but I'm not giving it a second thought because I've
just been and I've just become distracted inside of my mind.
But something that is said absolutely ages ago.
I'm guessing that you don't have the faintest idea what it is that I'm thinking about.
Yeah I'm sure that you know able to acknowledge that we can all be very very quick to arrive at assumptions
and judgments.
Do you see.
And are you able to identify how quickly it is that our perceptions are able to change when we're just
simply presented with a little bit more information.
Because as a plus sign that plus sign is a positive.
What if we were just to simply out a few extra little lines on this plus sign.
Well it's still a plus sign but I'm guessing you may be associating this with all of their murder death
kill that happened back in Jane in Germany through the Second World War.
You may be associating this with with Nazi Germany and Hitler and all the stuff which for you might
be a positive or negative.
If you were to draw up a diagram and say stuff nodding your head yes in a room with Jews that probably
wouldn't go down too well with no one.
Literally any agreement with us by who we all really want to do here is hopefully just help you see
how quickly our perceptions can change when we're presented with some new information but also how quickly
it is that we can arrive at assumptions about what people mean when they see and do the things that
they do.
So all this now is going to lead this on to other really cool exercise that we're just prepared with.
And this is all to do with meaning slight meanings in mind how it is that we assign meanings onto things
and how it is that we can all be looking at the same thing whilst assigning different meanings onto
this same thing where two people can be looking at the same thing from different angles but yet be seeing
things totally different with me.
So any different materials you're going to find a worksheet and on this worksheet there are I think
six or seven different images.
Sorry different different symbols and all that I want you to do is perhaps print or if you've got access
to a printer two or three copies of this worksheet I want you to fill that out.
No what I don't want you to do is write out what the symbols are their names or origins or anything
like that.
I just simply want you to reflect upon what it is that these symbols actually mean to you.
And then if you've got a boyfriend girlfriend husband wife mother father brother sister friend whatever.
Go through a Starbucks or go for a coffee somewhere and give them a copy of it goes off exactly the
same sheet.
And then what to do without letting them see what you've written down ask them just to simply interpret
and be as honest as what they can about what these exact same symbols mean to them know once they've
written their interpretations and once you've got yours then just simply compare notes and see if you
can begin to appreciate how it is that we all as human beings interpret things differently.
I promise this is a fascinating exercise and if you do this it really will create an anchor inside of
your mind which is just just an association about how it is that we arrive assumptions and conclusions
that can be a million miles away from the assumptions and the conclusions that other people arrive at.
And this is just one of these fascinating things about what it means to be human that if we don't appreciate
we're certain to forever be left in the dark never having the faintest idea why other people see things
differently from us.
And what this fundamentally is also going to give us is anarchy practitioners is a greater appreciation
for deference as are okay.
This is a sore right now once you have completed this little worksheet in the next lecture in the course
it's not going to be read in a video but it is in fact going to be.
Little perception's quiz.
I'm just Turkish they play around with your mind just a little bit to hopefully help you deepen your
understanding of sometimes how we see things.
Isn't actually always the way things are.
Is this okay.
Hope it is because this is fundamentally how we all experience life.
Look forward to seeing you again in the next few
months.