Create Your Own Reality

It seems hard to believe, and even harder to accept that we can, in fact, create our own reality. You can create your own reality, and you are responsible for it.
By no means an easy feat, by no means a small task, our ability to create the world around as we dream of it is possible to some extent.

“Chest out, Chin up, Shoulders back!”
A military motto

Just like how power posing for 2 minutes before a stressful situation helps you feel more present and confident, so will mental posing. The belief that a future we are planning out can be manifested with the right action and discipline has a profound change in the way we experience reality in the present. It gives us hope - which drives the meaning behind our actions.
Dan Gilbert in his book Stumbling on Happiness posited that the thing that differentiates humans from the rest of the species on earth is that

“We can think about the future!”

We imagine a vision for the future, make plans for reaching it, execute them, and learn from feedback and keep repeating this.

Our plans fail to work many times. But sometimes the future we worked toward does manifest!

In this low odds game of future rendering through predictions and action, what our brain fails to realize is that: The details of our day-to-day imaginations of the future and ruminations of the past are always flawed and riddled with biases.

We can not accurately estimate the measure of satisfaction an event we’ve imagined for the future would bring. The same for an event from the past stored in the form of memories as well.

We seem to know very little about the hearts and minds of people we are about to become.

So how do we strike the balance between pining for that future outcome we want versus a stress-free and happy state of mind in the present?

Watch the video to find out more!

Chapters
0:00 How do we define reality?
0:47 Body language
2:30 Difference between humans and other species
3:27 Happiness
4:35 Psychological arousal
5:21 Reality and interpretation
6:01 Goal setting and limitations

[TheJourneyyy]

Create Your Own Reality
0:47 Body language
2:30 Difference between humans and other species
3:27 Happiness
4:35 Psychological arousal
5:21 Reality and interpretation
6:01 Goal setting and limitations

[GiuroiuAnton]

Simplifying a goal in the future to make it doable, it's the only way, otherwise, we get stuck instantly.