Dylan VanasFounder & 2x 8-Figure Entrepreneur Empowering Growth

How This ANCIENT Story Is Still Relatable

Name: How This ANCIENT Story Is Still Relatable
Uploaded: 2022-12-06T17:00:26+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Dylan Vanas
Description: Dylan Vanas retells Plato's Allegory of the Cave: prisoners see only shadows, one escapes and discovers the real world, then returns to warn the others…

6 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Dylan Vanas retells Plato's Allegory of the Cave: prisoners see only shadows, one escapes and discovers the real world, then returns to warn the others. He uses it to explore how perception shapes reality and says he wants to be the one who gets out.

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There's a story called Plato's Analogy of the Cave. There's these prisoners, and these prisoners are sitting facing a wall, and behind them there's a bridge. And the people walk over the bridge, day in and day out, and then behind them is a fire. And what's happening is the fire is projecting the shadow of these people on the wall they're facing. And they're cuffed, right? They can't move. What they believe reality is, is these shadows that are moving on the wall. One day, one of the prisoners breaks free, walks out of the cave and into the real world. Well, he goes back and he's yelling into the cave, look, everyone, look. Like there's so much more. And the prisoners are like, no, there's no reality. The moral of that story is that there's so much more going on in life. But oftentimes, people become fixated on what they believe is reality. There's got to be more out there. And so I wanted to become that guy who escapes the cave and sees what's truly there.