Do you know that you are selectively editing all the time? The thing is that humans have a limited capacity to experience the world. Of the 11 million bits of information out there each second, we can only be conscious of about 50! So we have to filter or selectively edit and the filter with which we do that is thought. Our beliefs (which are just habitual thoughts) filter every single part of our experience all day every day. They create our experience of other people, circumstances and even ourselves. 

There is not much we can actually do about this but knowing we are doing it can be really helpful.

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