How Beliefs are Created
Apr 18, 2018SUMMARY
Humans like to think of themselves as essentially rational beings – absorbing all of the relevant information and arriving at the assuredly best conclusion based on the evidence.
If only it were that simple.
Decades of research in psychology shows us that the truth is a bit more complicated and far more interesting. Beliefs about the world are created out of imperfect processes – snap judgements, emotional associations, mental triggers, and imperfect "hunches."
We really do judge books by their covers, at least at first, and first impressions create formative beliefs.
What's even more startling to understand about how the mind works is how it creates beliefs.
One would think that, even though we can tend to make hasty generalizations or incorrect snap judgements, that our formative beliefs are created and reinforced through a process of rigorous analysis and parsing of the data we are exposed to.
Nope.
In his book entitled "The Believing Brain", Michael Shermer shows empirically that, contrary to popular opinion, beliefs are created in the mind first, and then data is found to support those beliefs. Not the other way around.
Shermer coins this process as "belief dependent realism" – what we perceive to be real (true or untrue) is dependent on our beliefs about what is true.
So, we are all BS'ng ourselves on a regular basis, and what we think we are seeing as demonstrable validation of our beliefs is our own mind filtering out unwanted preferences that might challenge us too deeply.
If you learn how beliefs are initially formed in the mind (see video above), then you can make sure that the beliefs that are guiding your values and behavior are purposefully chosen ones of your design, not ones crystallized in your mind through the messy process of unintentional reaction to your world.
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