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		<title>The Glass is Always Full (Realism vs Optimism vs Pessimism)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a video I made a while ago talking about ways of looking at things (in relation to the glass of water). In any case, best wishes and hope you have a wonderful day! Different ways to perceive a glass (or spoon) The glass is half full of water An optimist It&#8217;s a true statement, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a video I made a while ago talking about ways of looking at things (in relation to the glass of water). In any case, best wishes and hope you have a wonderful day!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Different ways to perceive a glass (or spoon)</h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li><em>The glass is half full of water</em><ul><li>An <strong>optimist</strong></li><li>It&#8217;s a true statement, but &#8230;</li></ul></li><li><em>The glass is half empty</em><ul><li>A <strong>pessimist</strong></li><li>It&#8217;s a true statement, too, but &#8230;</li></ul></li><li><em>The glass is full</em><ul><li>A <strong>realist</strong></li><li>This is encompasses more of the truth than the other two statements. The glass is (about) half full of water and half full of air.</li></ul></li><li>What <em>one person perceives as a &#8220;glass with water&#8221; may be completely different than how another person sees the &#8220;glass with water&#8221;</em><ul><li>A <strong>subjectivist</strong></li><li>This may be true, and can be internally consistent in a philosophical sense, though probably not too practical (plus it sort of gives me a headache haha)</li><li>In some cases, I think it&#8217;s good to be able to perceive things in this way &#8211; but as an alternate way of seeing things, not as the default way of see things</li><li>Does a person fundamentally think this is an &#8220;imaginary&#8221; existence or just there&#8217;s no way to prove that 2 people actually see (or don&#8217;t see) the same thing?</li><li>Again a very interesting idea, but I&#8217;m not sure if it has of day-to-day practicality for most people.</li></ul></li><li>The <em>glass is imagined/doesn&#8217;t really exist</em>, etc<ul><li>An <strong>existentialist</strong> (?), etc</li><li>This may or may not be true, it&#8217;s hard to prove &#8211; and doesn&#8217;t really affect the present, other than what a person is thinking about the present.</li><li>While potentially internally logically consistent, it doesn&#8217;t really change the day-to-day reality of things,</li><li>unless you&#8217;re in a movie called the <em>Matrix</em> <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></li><li><em>How does a person know if they are imagining things or just that they are imagining that they are imagining things?</em></li><li>For me, it just (on a day-to-day basis) leads me to accept reality for what it mostly seems to be, unless I first-hand experience a perceivable phenomena that suggests otherwise.</li></ul></li><li>The <em>glass and water and air are really all just the same particles</em><ul><li>This would be called a <strong>physicist</strong> <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></li><li>This is also true, but not really practical for most day-to-day situations unless a person is thinking about particle physics, etc</li></ul></li><li><em>Who really cares, I want to think about something else</em>!<ul><li>A <strong>stubborn, independent thinker </strong>who doesn&#8217;t want to be distracted ? hahah</li></ul></li><li><em>Don&#8217;t think just Observe. Feel the glass and water and air. Experience the moment!</em><ul><li><strong>People who want to &#8220;stay in&#8221; the present</strong>. </li><li>Please check out my article on leading with heart</li></ul></li><li><em>The glass and you and the universe are all one</em><ul><li><strong>Zen masters, Yoda,</strong> etc</li><li>Lonnie Liston Smith has a beautiful, great song that talks about this &#8230;</li></ul></li><li><em>Dude, that&#8217;s super deep bro!</em><ul><li>A <strong>surfer dude</strong> (at least at heart) <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></li></ul></li><li><em>Huh, what was the chord you just played before you started talking about food?</em> <em>Wait it there food &#8211; let&#8217;s take a quick break &#8230;.</em><ul><li>A <strong>musician</strong> hahahah</li></ul></li></ul>


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<p>For some more ideas about musicality, etc:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://www.guitarkitchen.com/the-3rd-way-and-abundance/" data-type="post" data-id="2049">The 3rd way and abundance</a></li><li><a href="https://www.guitarkitchen.com/truth-love-power-in-music/" data-type="post" data-id="1206">Truth, Love, and Power in Learning Music</a></li><li><a href="https://www.guitarkitchen.com/kindness-in-learning-music/" data-type="post" data-id="3840">Kindness in Learning Music</a></li><li><a href="https://www.guitarkitchen.com/positive-self-talk-life-music/" data-type="post" data-id="2165">Positive Self-Talk in Life and Music</a></li><li><a href="https://www.guitarkitchen.com/health-wealth-and-love-in-music/" data-type="post" data-id="2228">Health, Wealth and Love in Music</a></li><li><a href="https://www.guitarkitchen.com/daily-ideas-for-living-healthy/" data-type="post" data-id="131">Daily ideas for living healthy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.guitarkitchen.com/abundance-and-zero-sum-mindsets-cognitive-bias-distortion/" data-type="post" data-id="2475">Abundance and Zero-sum Mindsets – How Cognitive Bias and Distortion Affect Our Thinking</a></li></ul>
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