Mind Revolution

There’s something you can begin doing to increase your choices and give you more options in life. It’s simple (not necessarily easy, but you can start now) — it’s to challenge your biases. We all have beliefs (biases) that we believe. Beliefs are often those things we believe just because — we don’t personally know they’re true, but we believe them to be true. And it’s those beliefs that affect the choices we make and how we live our lives.  Our cognitive biases are unconscious. They’re beliefs that are running in the background of our minds, influencing how we live. Maybe we believe them because we trusted the source of the belief or because of an event or circumstance. To throw fuel on the fire, our unconscious mind filters our experiences and brings to our consciousness experiences that confirm — you guessed it — our biases, further cementing those beliefs. If you automatically discount the perspective of those who believe differently from you, you’re likely to have a cognitive bias about those specific ar