We have a fundamental flaw in our understanding of humanity, we tend to think that our brains are tools of logic and reason, like big, natural, squishy calculators.
Nope. They are story-telling machines. They take whatever you’re feeling, positive or negative, and look for connections in the world around you to weave those feelings into a story, and that story doesn’t have to make a lick of sense if it helps validate the feeling.
The sooner you understand this about your brain, the sooner you can break free from personal issues like rumination and long-lasting anxiety spells. But it also means that people are going to believe a thing that gives them both emotions and a story that explains it far more readily than purely intellectual knowledge.
This is why you have anti-vax doctors and flat-earthers with educations, it has nothing to do with knowledge, it’s entirely about feelings and the inability to separate feelings from factual knowledge.
We have a fundamental flaw in our understanding of humanity, we tend to think that our brains are tools of logic and reason, like big, natural, squishy calculators.
Nope. They are story-telling machines. They take whatever you’re feeling, positive or negative, and look for connections in the world around you to weave those feelings into a story, and that story doesn’t have to make a lick of sense if it helps validate the feeling.
The sooner you understand this about your brain, the sooner you can break free from personal issues like rumination and long-lasting anxiety spells. But it also means that people are going to believe a thing that gives them both emotions and a story that explains it far more readily than purely intellectual knowledge.
This is why you have anti-vax doctors and flat-earthers with educations, it has nothing to do with knowledge, it’s entirely about feelings and the inability to separate feelings from factual knowledge.