Interesting and well articulated thoughts, Perry. Thank you for contributing. Stick around. We have a long way to go to properly conclude with supported logic all that will be dealt with within this series, which will be pieced together throughout 200 plus installations. You may want to go back and look at the prior installments to gain the flow of the line series while being careful to note precisely what has been written up to this point in time. Please only see this as encouragement. You have certainly thought about this material, and since I have taught much of this to you prior, I want to stress context to you at this point. A hint, take a look at the first and third posts.
This installment was very helpful! There are some biases I had not considered before and ones that show up daily for me. The actor-observer bias is one I have fallen trap to most recently and I feel quite convicted to really tackle this and watch for it. The example videos were all very good. Thank you, Shane!
This is wonderful! I was convicted by the biases presented here, but there were many "ah-ha!" moments with light being shed on these errors. Looking forward to continuing!
There's a lot to process here and I was reflecting on different areas I see these errors in my own thinking, and considering all of the information I have missed as a result. I'm thinking about how this connects to cognitive dissonance and the desire to resolve. Given what you noted about the various inhibitors, it seems that errors in thinking are more or less inevitable and that we are born into a state of dissonance. Aside from the inhibitors that we are more or less victims to, it seems we seek out further inhibition, which I think is in part what you spoke of about bringing reality down to our level rather than rising to its complexity. I see this as the path of least resistance in that truly confronting the pain that resulted in those inhibitors to begin with, self-generated or not, would lead to further dissonance and, likely, a feeling of helplessness and overwhelm. The duration of time to resolve that dissonance versus the one created in those brief pockets of time when truth pierces the veil would feel unbearable. Which is part of the mystery. If truth is the way out and the only true obstacle is emotional pain, then why not just choose truth? My initial thought is that, to let go of such deep-seated pain that generated one's identity and earliest thoughts, would feel like death, and again, result in a state of dissonance that is wildly unbearable. To feel as though you are without a self is a terrifying thing to be confronted with and yet is, in itself, just another dissonance. What's also interesting to note is that the inhibitions you mention do, I think, in themselves contain various cognitive biases. They would have to- if a bias erases certain information necessary to processing reality, as does inhibition, then they are Venn-diagrammed.
Interesting and well articulated thoughts, Perry. Thank you for contributing. Stick around. We have a long way to go to properly conclude with supported logic all that will be dealt with within this series, which will be pieced together throughout 200 plus installations. You may want to go back and look at the prior installments to gain the flow of the line series while being careful to note precisely what has been written up to this point in time. Please only see this as encouragement. You have certainly thought about this material, and since I have taught much of this to you prior, I want to stress context to you at this point. A hint, take a look at the first and third posts.
Thank you! I will revisit those posts...and be rereading everything generally over and over...
This installment was very helpful! There are some biases I had not considered before and ones that show up daily for me. The actor-observer bias is one I have fallen trap to most recently and I feel quite convicted to really tackle this and watch for it. The example videos were all very good. Thank you, Shane!
This is wonderful! I was convicted by the biases presented here, but there were many "ah-ha!" moments with light being shed on these errors. Looking forward to continuing!
There's a lot to process here and I was reflecting on different areas I see these errors in my own thinking, and considering all of the information I have missed as a result. I'm thinking about how this connects to cognitive dissonance and the desire to resolve. Given what you noted about the various inhibitors, it seems that errors in thinking are more or less inevitable and that we are born into a state of dissonance. Aside from the inhibitors that we are more or less victims to, it seems we seek out further inhibition, which I think is in part what you spoke of about bringing reality down to our level rather than rising to its complexity. I see this as the path of least resistance in that truly confronting the pain that resulted in those inhibitors to begin with, self-generated or not, would lead to further dissonance and, likely, a feeling of helplessness and overwhelm. The duration of time to resolve that dissonance versus the one created in those brief pockets of time when truth pierces the veil would feel unbearable. Which is part of the mystery. If truth is the way out and the only true obstacle is emotional pain, then why not just choose truth? My initial thought is that, to let go of such deep-seated pain that generated one's identity and earliest thoughts, would feel like death, and again, result in a state of dissonance that is wildly unbearable. To feel as though you are without a self is a terrifying thing to be confronted with and yet is, in itself, just another dissonance. What's also interesting to note is that the inhibitions you mention do, I think, in themselves contain various cognitive biases. They would have to- if a bias erases certain information necessary to processing reality, as does inhibition, then they are Venn-diagrammed.