Note: I first wrote this back in September 2021 on medium but decided to bring it over here as my first article on mirror.As you navigate life thinking about things you initially tend to only see the world in one dimension. Your internal dialogue is “Everything is the way I see it and everyone experiences the world the way I do”. 🖼 👀 Then you experience something that conflicts with your current thinking. The cognitive dissonance this creates forces you to create an explanation. This explan...

Note: I first wrote this back in September 2021 on medium but decided to bring it over here as my first article on mirror.As you navigate life thinking about things you initially tend to only see the world in one dimension. Your internal dialogue is “Everything is the way I see it and everyone experiences the world the way I do”. 🖼 👀 Then you experience something that conflicts with your current thinking. The cognitive dissonance this creates forces you to create an explanation. This explan...

By Robert Neal As you go through life you start to accumulate ideas and perspectives. Some of these get more reinforcement than others and over time these perspectives ( predictions/ expectations) start to become unquestioned ideas known as beliefs. The more reinforcement a perspective has the more you believe it. You can have and hold multiple and even completing perspectives but similar to blockchain the longest beliefs win. You simply go with whatever has the most reinforcement. If you nee...

By Robert Neal As you go through life you start to accumulate ideas and perspectives. Some of these get more reinforcement than others and over time these perspectives ( predictions/ expectations) start to become unquestioned ideas known as beliefs. The more reinforcement a perspective has the more you believe it. You can have and hold multiple and even completing perspectives but similar to blockchain the longest beliefs win. You simply go with whatever has the most reinforcement. If you nee...