“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin https://t.co/ycMGVfzDEj
Anaïs Nin wrote, “We do not see the world as it is, but as we are.”
Brian Tracy • Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
we do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.
Edgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
Anaïs Nin is famously quoted as saying, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” That is, the truth is not as objective as we would like to believe. The truth is culturally mediated and socially negotiated and constructed based on our communal view of reality—our beliefs.