Muybridge’s famous experiment revealed that

• movement (in this case: a galloping horse) is not a unified, unbroken whole, but rather a sequence of distinct, discrete moments. Before this, motion was imagined as undifferentiated, cohesive, with one pose melting into the next. Now, we can see that this blur is actually a succession of defined, individual moments.

Here’s the secret:

• Your thoughts work the same way. You might experience them as one big stream, thoughts flowing into another without interruption. But, like Muybridge’s observation, if you look closely, you’ll see the gaps – where one thought ends and another begins.

When you step back and observe your thoughts,

• you’ll realize they’re not a cohesive, uninterrupted stream. They’re separate moments, like individual frames in a picture, that you put together into a narrative.

This awareness is the beginning of self-realization.