Have you ever heard this well known success quote? 

A Bird in the
the hand is worth
more than
two birds in the
the bush

A quick question:  Does the above sentence make sense to you?

Yes?  Read it again.

Does it still makes sense?  Are you certain!?

Because… It shouldn’t.

How many “the’s” are in the sentence above?

By now, some of you have caught it.  Some of you may have already see this exercise before. Some of you may not see anything amiss.

The word “the” is repeated. Twice.  There’s a total of four (4) “the’s” in that quote.

If, on your first reading, you missed the repeated words, you’re not alone: nearly 90% of readers, not being aware of the trick, believe it to be gramatically correct. A great many, when first told that the sentence is nonsensical will argue the sentence was written correctly.

But, if the sentence read “right” even once for you… you’ve experienced a “mistaken certainty”, that is, a belief that things were other than they really were.

Believe it or not, a huge amount of us would rather argue that we’re right… than we would open ourselves that we might be wrong and seek to grow.

You will meet a great many people in life – you may even, at times, be one yourself – that is quick to put effort into defending your “certainty”… rather than open yourself that there may have been something you didn’t see accurately.

For many of us, the most uncomfortable thing in the world is to be wrong. And, we’ll expend an enormous amount of effort arguing that we’re right, instead of asking questions that help us to grow.

Even worse: whether you’re certain of it or not… a huge amount of everyone’s beliefs are… mistaken certainties.  Nearly all of our perspectives are incomplete; often erroneous. The mind often relies on shortcuts such as biases or generalizations or prejudices or a myriad of other logical fallacies in judging “correct” and “incorrect,” and… to a one of us, compared to growing, nearly all of us spend a disproportionate amount of our time and energy describing (and reinforcing) our mistaken certainties rather than yearning to see more accurately

If you’d like to get out of the catch 22 – seeing only roadblocks and thus arguing that they are real – stop explaining what you see and start asking questions about what might be there. 

Watch LifeSuccessEngine.com for another article on “seeing what you can’t see.” We’ll deep dive INTO seeing (and thus operating in) the world more accurately.

But, for now, realize: the more effort you put into explaining why things “really are” how you see them… the more you’ll miss the opportunities in between the mistaken certainties.

Success and abundance are all around you… if you can see it.

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