We are all puppets and I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

我们都是木偶，我只不过是能看见绳子的木偶。

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The illustration that I use a lot is that we view life like a little marionette puppet, where you have these strings that run down to it, and we think that we are the puppet-master of our life.

我经常应用的这种错觉就是我们把生活看成是一个牵线木偶，有一些线绳牵制着它，我们以为我们是这个木偶的操控者。

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Then Sandy pulled the strings and our puppet danced.

然后，桑迪拉动绳子，木偶就跳起舞来。

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But instead of dancing around like a puppet minus the strings or like Penn, you should focus on those annoying physical symptoms and redefine them as the signs of the good energy that they are.

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