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You’re doing it without paying attention!
It’s sooo interesting to discover it!
Let’s also see what impacts it will have on building your confidence…!
Let’s dive into this!
What is it?!
What I want to share with you today is what we call a “confirmation bias”.
What is it you ask?
If we ask Google, it answers us that:
“Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias that involves favoring information that confirms previously existing beliefs or biases. For example, imagine that a person holds a belief that left-handed people are more creative than right-handed people.”
As you can see, the brain wants to be super-efficient!
It cannot recreate an experience in the world every single day otherwise it will take so much time!!
It just wants to drive to a conclusion easily to save some time and energy which let’s not forget it, is one of the main points in the motivational triad:
- Seek pleasure (instant gratification)
- Avoid pain (stay safe)
- Conserve energy (minimize effort)
So, since it wants to save time and energy this is what it will do: everything we see in our life, in every situation we encounter is going through its filter!
To get an answer faster and then we can act faster too!
So, it looks at experiences from the past to get to a conclusion very fast.
It’s the same with someone who had a bad experience with a dog and now believes that every dog is the same!
It’s simply the brain that wants to save time and goes to conclusions very fast.
In the situation, it will look like this: “Do not take risks, do not approach that dog!” even if the dog isn’t the same as the scary one in the past…!
Interesting, no? 🙂
Why does it matter?
It’s important to know about it so you can raise more awareness!
Why?!
Because you don’t know what you don’t know, until you know it!
When this episode is over, pay attention to what you are thinking.
And see how much sometimes you’re thinking things just because you’ve been thinking this for a long time!
Want an example?
Let’s take the example of driving your car and getting mad at someone driving very slowly.
What is happening is that you may have a thought such as “people are really bad at driving” or “people are so slow when they drive”, that your brain (let’s remind ourselves that it’s very efficient!), will look for proof that indeed, “people are really bad at driving” or “people are so slow when they drive”!!
Then, you’ll suffer more and more!
Not because people aren’t the best drivers in the world but because of what you are thinking and how much proof, how much evidence you’re finding while driving on a nice road…!
Can you see how that works?!
And how it’s useful when it comes to feeling confident!
So, the idea is really to start paying attention to small situations like those in your life.
Just pay attention to how much you are attached to some thought (like the one when you’re driving, maybe?) and ask yourself: Is it something that I’ve been thinking maybe?
And I keep finding proof of it?
It can also be found in the relationships with the people you live!
We often have the same thoughts over and over again about their behaviors, something they should do differently and we keep on seeing proof and evidence more and more…!
And we feel like it’s 100% the truth, 100% the reality!
But what if it’s actually just the evidence and the proof that our brain is finding for things we are thinking?
Someone isn’t listening to you…? You’re going to find all the times that they’re not listening…! No matter how many times they are in opposition to the times they do listen…!
Interesting, right? 🙂
Then, you can trust yourself more.
You can be on to your brain. You know that it’s just something it’s doing to be efficient!
Thank your brain for helping me out! 🙂
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No matter the situation, the emotions you’re having, the actions you’re going to take are DIRECTLY related to what you are thinking.
So, if you have a problem in your life, it’s actually a thought problem.
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