How to See Yourself as Realistic as Possible

First, you need to decode the data compression trick of your brain

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THE STORAGE SPACE inside our brain is limited by the size of our skull.

Approximately eighty billion brain cells compressed inside our skull are the only space to store everything that we see, smell, read, hear, think, taste, feel, and experience during our lifetime.

As an evolutionary way to manage its limited resource, the brain has developed a data compression trick — the story.

THE MIND LOVES telling stories; in fact, it is quite a task to make it stop churning stories.

All-day, every day, it tells you stories about who you are, what you’re like, what you should be doing with your life, what other people think of you, what’s wrong with the world, what will happen in the future, what went wrong in the past, and so on.

It’s like one of those news channels that never take a break.

However, if you look around the real world, it doesn’t have any stories. Even if you happen to hop through multiple continents, besides the obvious changes in topography and inhabitants, you wouldn’t find any stories — that is until you start spending time with the local people of the region.