Two people walk into the identical situation and one sees opportunity while the other sees threat. The situation did not change. The filter did. We do not see the world as it is, we see it as we ARE.
This is not wishful thinking, it is how attention works. Your beliefs decide what your eyes are allowed to notice. Change the belief and a whole set of options you were blind to suddenly appears.
Learning to run that filter on purpose is some of the most practical inner work there is, and I unpack it across my 17-day series: Doing the Work in Public Where in your life do you suspect your filter is showing you less than what is actually there? One more! Have you seen or heard of the gorilla experiement?