Sometimes the thing we want most is simply a “stripe” we have never learned to see.
In this clip from Know Thyself, the conversation explores a powerful lesson from a visual development experiment with newborn kittens.
When the kittens were raised seeing only one orientation of stripes, their brains adapted to that limited visual world. Later, when they were placed in a normal environment, they struggled to perceive what their brains had never been trained to recognize.
The deeper question becomes: where are we the kitten in our own lives?
Maybe the next level of growth, love, creativity, or possibility is not unavailable to us. Maybe it is simply unfamiliar to our nervous system.
This is where neuroplasticity becomes empowering. If the brain is helping construct our experience of reality, then we also have the capacity to adapt, learn, and begin seeing what we could not see before.
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