A short Wayne Dyer clip on the same maxim — change how you see, and what you see changes — pivoted around Einstein's question of whether the universe is friendly or hostile, and a parable about looking for keys under the streetlight instead of where they were dropped.
Transcript
you change the way you look at things the things you look at change Albert Einstein once observed that the most fundamental and major decision that you have to make in your life is this do I live in a friendly or a hostile universe which is it is it a universe that is filled with hostility and anger and people wanting to hate each other and people wanting to kill each other is that what you see because when you see the world that way that's exactly what you will create for yourself in your life this is from great scientific mind and the interesting thing is that this is not just a a clever play on words that when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change I'd like you to imagine the following scene you're in your house you've got your car keys in your hand the lights go out power failure you can't see a thing you stumble around in your living room and you drop your keys and you look around for a moment and you realize that you're never going to find them in the dark but you look outside and you notice that the street lights are on so in your mind a light bulb goes off I'm not going to sit around here in the dark and grope around looking for my keys when there's a light on outside I'm going to go out here under the street light I'm gonna look for my teeth why are you laughing this makes a lot of sense so you're out here and you're groping around and you're looking for your keys and you're looking and looking and your neighbor comes along and says what happened Wayne well um I dropped my keys oh I'll help you look for it and the two of us are now down here looking for our keys and looking finally he says to me excuse me but where did you drop your keys well um I dropped them in the house he said you mean to tell me that you dropped your keys in the house and you're looking for them out here and the street light doesn't make any sense and I said well it doesn't make an exist to grope around in the dark when there's light out here now you laugh and you think how silly that is but isn't that exactly what we do when we have a problem a difficulty a struggle that is located inside and we're looking for the solution outside some place outside of our