Guest Emma discusses lens shifts and perspectives in life, exploring the impact of personal outlook on experiences, embracing new viewpoints, and the significance of changing perspectives for personal growth and success. The podcast delves into the influence of environment, social circles, therapy, fear of failure, ego, and media on shaping one's perspective.
Choosing positive relationships can impact our perspective, Media consumption affects our outlook and can be controlled for positive lenses.
Deep dives
Importance of Perspective in Shaping Life
The podcast highlights the significance of the lens through which we view life. Emma discusses the impact of one's perspective on overall attitude and the need to use a positive and accurate lens to enhance life quality. She shares personal experiences when shifting her lens towards Los Angeles from negative to positive, emphasizing the need to reevaluate perspectives for a better quality of life.
Impact of Surroundings on Perspective
Emma explores how the people we surround ourselves with influence our perspective. She mentions how negative lenses of friends or partners can affect our own outlook and emphasizes the importance of choosing relationships that align with positive lenses to enhance our own perspectives.
Influence of Personal Experience and Ego on Lenses
The podcast discusses how past experiences and personal ego can shape our lenses. Emma reflects on staying in relationships or endeavors longer due to subconscious fear of failure, highlighting the need to overcome ego-driven lenses for healthier perspectives.
Role of Media Consumption in Shaping Perspectives
Emma discusses how media consumption impacts our lenses, pointing out that what we consume influences our outlook. She emphasizes the power of making conscious choices in consuming media to maintain positive lenses and highlights the ability to control and shift our perspectives through mindful media choices.
you know what i love? a metaphor. and my favorite metaphor this week is the lens that we view life through. i'm referring to our perspective, attitude, or general point of view towards life. it's something i'm really working on right now - making sure that i'm looking at life through the best lens possible. so today i'm sharing two major examples of lens shifts that have happened in my life recently, and 3 things i do to keep my lenses in check.