You can’t see the glasses you’re wearing. You only see the world they tint.

Every belief you hold about how people work is doing quiet editing before anything reaches you. You do not experience it as a belief. It arrives as plain fact, as the obvious reading of what just happened. That is what makes it hard to question, because the lens is never in the picture it produces.

A useful habit is to ask what someone with a different history would see in the same scene. When two people describe the same afternoon and disagree, you are watching two lenses, not one liar. Look for the places where your certainty comes too fast.