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The One Thing I’d Love to Have Every Person on Planet Earth Understand
Shift your mindset to better understand the world
Imagine going to a movie theatre to watch a film. The audience is full and everyone is watching the same film on the same screen at the same exact time.
When you leave the theatre, you overhear some of the audience members talking about the movie and you think to yourself:
“What the hell are they talking about?”
It’s not just that they have a different opinion about the movie than you do, rather what they’re describing doesn’t appear to be the same movie at all.
Scott Adams calls this phenomenon the “two movies theory.” People with opposing ideologies don’t just disagree about their opinions, they live in entirely different realities and interpret the same exact situations entirely differently.
So, the one thing I would love to have every single person on Earth understand is this:
Your perspective is just one of 7 billion perspectives and you’re not right about everything. Hell, you’re probably not right about most things.
