“You’ll see it when you believe it,”

The Psychological Aspect: In modern contexts, it often refers to confirmation bias or the law of attraction. Authors like Wayne Dyer popularized the phrase “You’ll see it when you believe it,” suggesting that our internal beliefs and mindset act as filters that shape how we perceive and experience external reality. 

• Perceptual Bias: Scientifically, humans often “see what they believe” because our brains process visual information based on existing memories and expectations, making eyewitness testimony fallible.
• Cautionary Wisdom: Conversely, figures like Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe warned against over-trusting perception, famously advising to “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see”. 

Rich’s thoughts;

• Why is it that we see different realities when we look at the same thing?
  • Do we see what is there?
  • Do we see what we are told is there?
  • Do we see what we want to see?
  • Do we see what we already believe?

• What do we show or tell?
  • What we believe?
  • What we want others to believe?
    • Even though we know it is a lie?
  • What is our motivation?
• Is it a lie?
• Is wrong, wrong – regardless of the wrapping?
• Why do we lie?
  • To change how we think others look at us?
  • To convince others, we “know”?
• Is a lie ever anything other than a lie?
• Is deception not a lie?

A lie is a lie!

Dishonesty is Dishonesty!

Deception is a Lie: maybe of a greater magnitude!