Stoic Coffee Break

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”― Marcus AureliusShow Notes:So many things in our lives that we experience and accept to be “true” is simply a matter of perception.Often we make the mistake of thinking that just because we see or hear something that because we experienced it, it must be what reality is.That the way the we experience the world is the way the world really is.But the Stoics remind us that everything in our experience is simply our perception of it, and that our perceptions are quite often wrong.And that we should be prepared to let go of anything we hold as “facts” or “truth” because at any moment we could get new information and be completely wrong.We see this with optical illusions. We see imaginary things in the shadows.We see this in mistakes by eyewitness testimonies that are completely contradicted by video footage of the same event.Everything that we experience is just data signals coming in and our brains are doing it’s be