What reality are you creating for yourself? | Isaac Lidsky

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English
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11
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ENG
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1. What do you think is life all about?2. Do you believe that we create our reality? Before watching. Share your thoughts. perceive to become aware of through the senses assumption a belief or statement taken for granted without proof. deteriorate to lower in quality or value; to wear away bizarre extremely strange, unusual, atypical warped twisted; distorted bias prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Fill in the gaps with the following:Villains Ruin Triplets Warped Distort 1. Your fears distort your reality.2. Under the warped logic of fear, anything is better than the uncertain.3. When I was diagnosed with my blinding disease, I knew blindness would ruin my life.4. Your fears, your critics, your heroes, your villains- they are your excuses,rationalizations, shortcuts, justifications, your surrender.5. Far from alone, I share my beautiful life with Dorothy, my beautiful wife, with our triplets, whom we call the Tripskys, and with the latest addition to thefamily, sweet baby Clementine. 1. Who is the speaker? What`s his job? What`s his disease?2. What is the main idea of the video? 04:05Let me (1)explainwith a bit of amateur neuroscience. Your visual cortex takes up about 30percent of your brain. That's compared to (2) approximately eight percent for touch and two tothree percent for hearing. Every second, your eyes can send your visual cortex as many as twobillion pieces of information. The rest of your body can send your brain only an (3) additional billion. So sight is one third of your brain by volume and can claim about two thirds of yourbrain's processing resources. It's no surprise then that the (4) illutionof sight is socompelling. But make no mistake about it: sight is an illusion.08:03Hold yourself (5) accountable for every moment, every thought, every detail. See (6) beyond your fears. Recognize your assumptions. Harness your internal strength. Silence your internalcritic. Correct your misconceptions about luck and about success. Accept your strengths andyour weaknesses, and understand (7) the difference. Open your hearts to your bountifulblessings.09:58Helen Keller said that the only thing (8) worsethan being blind is having sight but no vision.For me, going (9) blind was a profound blessing, because blindness gave me vision. I hopeyou can (10) see what I see. TRUE He was the star in a reality sitcom. He suffers from a rare genetic eye disease. It is important to see through rationalisation, shortcuts and excuses and remove theillusion of sight, replace sight with the ability of vision. FALSE Lidsky isn`t a Harvard graduate. The speaker is the CEO of his own entertainment company in Orlando. 1. Who creates your reality? Why and how?2. What three changes you would want to see in your life? After watching Qs. Give your answers.

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