The Reality Gap No One Talks About

Indexed: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]And I think one of the challenges we have in  this country is it's really hard for somebody to relate to something they've never experienced.  And you people, we have a world view where your perspective of the world is entirely defined  by the experiences that you've had. And here's an classic example. When my nephew was three,  we were sitting in a coffee shop and he said, "Can you hand me that that that orange thing  on the table?" And I picked it up and I said, "Do you mean this, Jacob?" And there was only one  thing on the table and it was actually green. And I said, he said, "Yeah, can you hand me that  orange thing?" And I said, "Jacob, this kind of orange is called green." And he said, "Oh,  can you hand me that green thing?" And I said, "Sure." And I handed it to him because he had  never experienced green before. Right? And so I think sometimes when we are going about  our life, we are used to only seeing the color orange and we're not necessarily open to  the possibility that it actually may be Green.