{"id":10243,"date":"2021-06-17T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10243"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"henry-ford-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10243","title":{"rendered":"HENRY FORD WAS RIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0At the beginning of this past semester, I gave my students the famous quote by Henry Ford and asked them to respond to it:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Whether you think you can or you think you can&#8217;t &#8211; you&#8217;re right!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can come across as little more than a cheesy motivational poster caption, but I think Ford was onto something incredibly profound.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think about it, in a wider sense, Ford is saying that reality is entirely determined between our ears.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is something I have been thinking about for the past year or more: I don&#8217;t have direct access to reality. Reality is ALWAYS filtered through my senses and into my brain where it is reassembled and then &#8230; interpreted.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And my interpretation of what is going on around me is going to play the primary role in what I say and think and do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(P.S. This is one of the reasons I am so concerned over the possibility I am experiencing some (mild) form of depression. If my interpretation of reality all trends toward negativity and hopelessness, I am going to speak and think and act negatively and hopelessly.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I won&#8217;t be much fun to be around.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0At the beginning of this past semester, I gave my students the famous quote by Henry Ford and asked them to respond to it: &#8220;Whether you think you can or you think you can&#8217;t &#8211; you&#8217;re right!&#8221; It can come across as little more than a cheesy motivational poster caption, but I think Ford was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10244,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions\/10244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}