009 Why it's wise to re-evaluate our beliefs often
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Hello, hope you're having a great weekend! Here's your weekly Newsletter from arjunkhemani.com. Human bias can creep up and cheekily distort reality, yes. But in many instances it can even go against our own perspectives. Let me explain. All humans have certain tendencies which make the worlds reality go up the spout. Especially some of our beliefs that are too strong and kept with us for a long time, we have a certain kind of a very strong bias for them. We only think that they are true and anything to the contrary to our deep-rooted beliefs is false. Most "beliefs" as such are mostly assumed, but not all. Some are real. But even the compelling reality in those beliefs aren't enough to overturn our assumed beliefs and accept that we are real-ly wrong. For example, lets take the assumed belief that the Earth was the center of the universe. That wasn't true. And it was proved wrong by Copernicus' theory. But there were still critics who thought that that just couldn't be true. Earth is the center of the universe and it will always be that way. They didn't want to believe that the Earth was not unique and that even they were not unique, proved by realistic observations and not from assumed beliefs. They would rather be wrong and unique in a false world than be right and common in a real world. This is how they distort reality. But sometimes, these beliefs are so powerful that they can even distort our personal perspectives. And can contradict our personal views with some other assumed beliefs.
009 Why it's wise to re-evaluate our beliefs often
009 Why it's wise to re-evaluate our beliefs…
009 Why it's wise to re-evaluate our beliefs often
Hello, hope you're having a great weekend! Here's your weekly Newsletter from arjunkhemani.com. Human bias can creep up and cheekily distort reality, yes. But in many instances it can even go against our own perspectives. Let me explain. All humans have certain tendencies which make the worlds reality go up the spout. Especially some of our beliefs that are too strong and kept with us for a long time, we have a certain kind of a very strong bias for them. We only think that they are true and anything to the contrary to our deep-rooted beliefs is false. Most "beliefs" as such are mostly assumed, but not all. Some are real. But even the compelling reality in those beliefs aren't enough to overturn our assumed beliefs and accept that we are real-ly wrong. For example, lets take the assumed belief that the Earth was the center of the universe. That wasn't true. And it was proved wrong by Copernicus' theory. But there were still critics who thought that that just couldn't be true. Earth is the center of the universe and it will always be that way. They didn't want to believe that the Earth was not unique and that even they were not unique, proved by realistic observations and not from assumed beliefs. They would rather be wrong and unique in a false world than be right and common in a real world. This is how they distort reality. But sometimes, these beliefs are so powerful that they can even distort our personal perspectives. And can contradict our personal views with some other assumed beliefs.