<video><title>An Uncommonly Fine Life - Chapter 6 - See the World as Illlusion</title><description>A book about principles for living a happy and fulfilled life</description><transcript><transcript><line from="00:00:00,000" to="00:00:04,320">The world is not what it seems. It is an illusion created by your own mind.</line><line from="00:00:05,760" to="00:00:11,760">What is meant by this? Let's take a look at the way that our senses work. Our senses are</line><line from="00:00:11,760" to="00:00:17,120">biological sensors which communicate with our brains through nerve signals. The sense organs</line><line from="00:00:17,120" to="00:00:21,360">themselves take some time to respond to stimulus and even the nerve message doesn't get to your</line><line from="00:00:21,360" to="00:00:26,560">brain instantaneously. It takes some time for the electrical signal to travel along the length of the</line><line from="00:00:26,560" to="00:00:34,480">nerve. By the time the signal reaches your brain, it is already delayed. Your brain then takes this</line><line from="00:00:34,480" to="00:00:40,880">information and creates a model of reality based on what it receives from your senses. This model</line><line from="00:00:40,880" to="00:00:46,640">is not reality itself but only a representation of reality. It is an illusion created by your mind.</line><line from="00:00:47,440" to="00:00:52,880">How do we know that the world we see is an illusion? Because our brains are constantly filling in the</line><line from="00:00:52,880" to="00:00:57,760">gaps. For example when you look at a table, you don't see all the individual atoms that make up the</line><line from="00:00:57,760" to="00:01:03,840">table. You see the illusion of a table. Your brain has created this illusion based on the</line><line from="00:01:03,840" to="00:01:10,560">information it receives from your senses. In fact, there has never been a single moment in time when</line><line from="00:01:10,560" to="00:01:17,200">you experience the present moment through the senses. All sense experiences delayed. You are always</line><line from="00:01:17,280" to="00:01:23,680">living in the past. This is not to say that the world is not real. Only that what we experience</line><line from="00:01:23,680" to="00:01:30,240">is not reality itself. But only a representation of reality. It is an illusion created by our mind.</line><line from="00:01:30,960" to="00:01:35,120">It's important to know this because it means that we have the power to create our own reality.</line><line from="00:01:35,920" to="00:01:41,280">If the world we experience is an illusion created by our mind, then we have the power to change</line><line from="00:01:41,280" to="00:01:47,200">that illusion. We can choose what we want to focus on. We can choose what we want to believe.</line><line from="00:01:48,080" to="00:01:53,360">We can create our own reality. This doesn't mean that we can change the physical world but we can</line><line from="00:01:53,360" to="00:01:58,400">change our experience of the world. We can choose to focus on the positive instead of the negative.</line><line from="00:01:59,200" to="00:02:03,360">We can choose to see the world as a friendly place instead of a hostile place. We can choose to</line><line from="00:02:03,360" to="00:02:08,160">believe that we are capable and competent instead of believing that we are powerless and incapable.</line><line from="00:02:08,960" to="00:02:15,200">When we change the way we see the world, we change the world we see. And we also naturally change</line><line from="00:02:15,200" to="00:02:22,000">the responses we have to the world. If you want to change your life, change the way you see the world.</line></transcript></transcript></video>