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Assumption Is The Mother Of All Fuckups

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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How to Make Sense of Reality

If you question assumptions, these assumptions deeply enough, how reality makes sense to you will radically change. Limits that you thought were part of reality will dissolve. And i have a little example here to show you. This is the nine dot problem. I'm sure many of you have already done this little puzzle and you know the answer. So what this puzzle? The reason this puzzle is so interesting and tricky is that it operates on an implicit assumption that you have about the puzzle. That's why this example is so good. It's going to be so obvious, and it's going to reveal to you an assumption that you held.

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