Why Your View Has Never Existed Before

I was listening to a talk by Sir Ken Richardson recently, and one short passage stopped me in my tracks. Not because it was dramatic, but because it was quietly exact.

He pointed to something we all live with every day, yet rarely pause to notice.

That we live in two worlds.

There is the outer world.
A world that existed before you arrived and will continue after you’re gone.
A world of people, objects, events, history, and circumstance.
A shared world.

And then there is another world.
One that came into being when you did.
A world that exists only because you exist.
Your inner world.
Your consciousness.
The private, lived experience that only you can ever truly know.

This inner world isn’t just something happening inside you.
It’s the lens through which you experience everything “out there.”

Ken quoted Anaïs Nin, who said it perfectly:

“I do not see the world as it is. I see it as I am.”

That single sentence explains a great deal of our confusion with one another.

We don’t disagree because the world is different.
We disagree because our experiences of the world differ.

Same events.
Same facts.
Same moment.

Different worlds.

And here’s where it gets even more interesting.

Some very smart people have estimated that roughly 100 billion human beings have lived during modern human existence. One hundred billion lives. One hundred billion inner worlds.

Not one of them is exactly the same.

Not one.

Which means this:
There has never been another you.
Not in history.
Not now.
Not ever again.

Your way of seeing, feeling, interpreting, sensing, caring, and making meaning has never existed before and will never exist again in quite the same way.

That’s not poetic exaggeration.
That’s simply how reality works.

This is where I gently reintroduce something I’ve called Thinkiverse.

Thinkiverse isn’t a theory to adopt or a belief to defend.
It’s a way of noticing what’s already true.

Each of us lives in our own Thinkiverse.
A thought-created, moment-to-moment inner universe that shapes how life appears to us.

We don’t respond directly to the world.
We respond to the world as it appears through our Thinkiverse.

And when we forget that, we argue.
We harden.
We personalize.
We assume our view is the view.

But when we remember it, something softens.

We begin to see that when someone reacts strongly, withdraws, lashes out, or digs in, they’re not responding to the world.
They’re responding to their world.

Just as we are.

That understanding doesn’t make us passive.
It makes us wiser.

It opens the door to responses instead of reactions.
Curiosity instead of certainty.
Connection instead of combat.

And here’s the good news.

Because your inner world is alive, fluid, and responsive, it can change. Not through force or effort, but through understanding.

When your thinking settles, even briefly, clarity shows up on its own.
When clarity shows up, you see more.
And when you see more, you naturally act with more kindness, intelligence, and humanity.

Same outer world.
New experience of it.

So yes, there are two worlds.

But they meet in you.
And the way you see life has never existed before.

That matters.

Much love,

This is the Sir Ken Richardson talk that inspired this post:

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