The reality of the situation never changes, you can…
Page 157. The reality of the situation never changes, you can only change your perception of it. Consider all the facts and then choose wisely
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
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"We are not disturbed by the things that happen to us, but by the view we take of them." — after Epictetus (Sample epigraph — or use one of your own; you said it in your own voice in, that the reality of a situation never really changes; you can only ever change your perception of it.) At the end of the last chapter I told you that you cannot spend your hours well if you cannot see clearly what is actually in front of you. […] We are not disturbed by the things that happen to us, the Stoics taught, but by the view — the definition — we attach to them. The reality of a situation does not change; what changes, and the only thing you can change, is your perception of it. Irving Berlin put the same truth in plainer clothes: life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you take it. […] The world, finally, is never quite as it seems. So hold your readings humbly, keep your perspective, and remember your one great freedom: that you get to choose, every single day, what view you take of whatever you are given. [Write here, in your own hand, the one rule for handling expectations that you most want them to carry — the thing that keeps you, even now, least disappointed.] — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)