Believing is Seeing

We do not see the world as it is, but as we are.

Said differently, we see what we believe.

Our interpretations of what we experience shape our beliefs and color our perception. What we’ve come to know about ourselves, the world, the things we accept and perpetuate with our expectations all create our reality. Einstein famously said that “it is the theory that decides what we observe”. Decades of study later, findings in neuroscience to support what Einstein knew intuitively. Thinking is subjective, and personal ideas and theories distort what we observe.