How your brain builds and edits your identity
Knowing that our perception is an illusion, our sense of self is illusion. All of it is illusion in the sense that it’s a construct of our brain, our brain is creating this for us. And given that, that’s an opportunity because we can have some control over how our brain perceives the world, and that’s where the power lies. Our perceptions are basically formed from a combination of what we expect, so that’s coming internally from our past experiences. And then what’s coming into our brain externally. And when those two things meet, it creates this perception, which is what we actually experience. Your inner voice is your ability to silently use language to reflect on your life. Provides us with a survival advantage. It’s an incredible problem-solving device. I realized that we have this ability to change our trajectory and change our thoughts. And we can expand the box that we’re in. We can expand our perception of who we are in the world. Our mind are shaped by our prior experience. So …
