{"id":4008,"date":"2020-11-14T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2020-11-14T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T18:47:10","slug":"the-glass-is-always-full-realism-vs-optimism-vs-pessimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/the-glass-is-always-full-realism-vs-optimism-vs-pessimism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glass is Always Full (Realism vs Optimism vs Pessimism)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here’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>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Different ways to perceive a glass (or spoon)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The glass is half full of water<\/em><ul><li>An <strong>optimist<\/strong><\/li><li>It’s a true statement, but …<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>The glass is half empty<\/em><ul><li>A <strong>pessimist<\/strong><\/li><li>It’s a true statement, too, but …<\/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 “glass with water” may be completely different than how another person sees the “glass with water”<\/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’s good to be able to perceive things in this way – 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 “imaginary” existence or just there’s no way to prove that 2 people actually see (or don’t see) the same thing?<\/li><li>Again a very interesting idea, but I’m not sure if it has of day-to-day practicality for most people.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>The <em>glass is imagined\/doesn’t really exist<\/em>, etc<ul><li>An <strong>existentialist<\/strong> (?), etc<\/li><li>This may or may not be true, it’s hard to prove – and doesn’t really affect the present, other than what a person is thinking about the present.<\/li><li>While potentially internally logically consistent, it doesn’t really change the day-to-day reality of things,<\/li><li>unless you’re in a movie called the <em>Matrix<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/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> \ud83d\ude42<\/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’t want to be distracted ? hahah<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>Don’t think just Observe. Feel the glass and water and air. Experience the moment!<\/em><ul><li><strong>People who want to “stay in” 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 …<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>Dude, that’s super deep bro!<\/em><ul><li>A <strong>surfer dude<\/strong> (at least at heart) \ud83d\ude42<\/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 – let’s take a quick break ….<\/em><ul><li>A <strong>musician<\/strong> hahahah<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"The Glass is Full!\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_u2D5eZb6hCc\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fu2D5eZb6hCc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2D5eZb6hCc\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M43S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2015-01-27T20:59:40Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_u2D5eZb6hCc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fu2D5eZb6hCc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">The Glass is Full!<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u2D5eZb6hCc\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fu2D5eZb6hCc%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"The Glass is Full!\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Just wanted to share some thoughts I had about the question: "Is the glass being half-full or half-empty?" I say the optimist says, "half-full", the pessimist, "half-empty", the realist, "full, half of water, half of air", and the physicist, something like, "both full and empty".\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>For some more ideas about musicality, etc:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<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 \u2013 How Cognitive Bias and Distortion Affect Our Thinking<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here’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’s a true statement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,11,6],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-vibes","category-health","category-music","category-self-improvement","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oCEi-12E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarkitchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}