Perspective and State of Mind Affect Reality

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Botton’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] we have said many times before that you do not see the world as it is you see the world as you are you see the world as you are we talk about as many times as the famous phrase to the person who has a hammer every problem is a nail right i told you once i'm standing talking to a friend of mine a man walks up to us someone we recognize but not up to us someone we recognize but not necessarily close friends and he said to us you have the same mouth same exact mouth strange thing to say to people right same mouth how's that so what was his profession what did he do for a living dentist spends his day looking at people's mouths so he sees people based on their mouths makes sense now here's the thing when you want to be successful in any situation it is critically important to be able to get a good take an accurate picture of what's happening in that situation does that make sense if it's not an accurate picture you can't respond you can't plan you can't

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1. 0:00[Music] we have said many times before that you do not see the world as it…
2. 3:07not just physically but emotionally if you're hungry it's harder to feel that sense of happiness…
3. 6:42i'm sorry we were tiny in our eyes and so too we were small in their…
4. 10:17slave many years go by they don't see him in the meantime joseph who it's sold…
5. 13:51times that happens i know two different couples are happily married for about 30 years 30…
6. 17:27it also means it's the same um numerical value remove from yourself if you have this…
7. 21:05don't make big decisions he decided to sell the right to be the firstborn on that…
8. 24:38dentist no problem because that pleasure is going to lead to pain the meaning that you…
9. 28:10take two weeks you don't know now when uzio was away his son became the acting…
10. 31:44beginning or realize it at the end everything's being orchestrated it's interesting thing this is not…

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