{"id":81025,"date":"2020-01-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/?p=81025"},"modified":"2020-10-22T03:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:17:03","slug":"tq-kurt-vonnegut-pretend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-kurt-vonnegut-pretend\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut on Choosing Our Stances and Creating Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/category\/tuesday-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWe are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.\u201d <\/em><\/p><cite> <em>Kurt Vonnegut<\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Words matter. They form our version of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through our words, we create our feelings. And the feelings give more power to the words. They make them true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we convince ourselves that we\u2019re too busy, for example, we create that reality. We feel busy. And so we may lose focus and become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/frustrated-with-guitar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">stressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We create many of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/never-too-old\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">limitations<\/a> by pretending they already exist. We act the part, we talk the talk, and so they come to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we could also \u201cpretend\u201d that we have all the time in the world. We can choose to believe we have plenty of time to do anything we want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B6TWEWEp_tg\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Ray Dalio<\/a> suggests we can\u2019t do <em>everything<\/em> we want to, at least not at once. But we can do virtually <em>anything<\/em> we want.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can pretend to <em>be<\/em> anything we want. And we can pretend to be however we want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can \u201cmake believe\u201d we learn things easily. We can try on consistency and patience. We can imagine ourselves calm and aware and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/musical-expression-guitar-phrasing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">engaged<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we simply pretend we\u2019re not pretending, and it becomes reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here. Enjoy! \u201cWe are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.\u201d Kurt Vonnegut Words matter. They form our version of reality. Through our words, we create our feelings. 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