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SIR STEVE HANSEN: Your perception shapes your reality....

31 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Sir Steve Hansen (uploaded by James Laughlin, Oct 31, 2023) arguing that perception constitutes an individual's reality and that to change how others see you you must change your own behavior. The speaker emphasizes personal responsibility over asking others to alter their views and uses direct, aphoristic statements (e.g., 'perception is someone's reality').

One thing I have learnt is that perception is someone's reality. How someone sees you is how they see you. And if you don't like how they see you, don't ask them to change because they can't. What has to change is you. I can only change your perception of me by me changing the things that I'm doing to make. If you have negative perception, then I have to change those myself. I can't ask you to change. Well, why would you change? You're not invested in it. But if I want you to think that I'm a nice man, then I have to act like a nice man.