All that we come to know, we learn from our experiences.
Yet, our experiences don’t show or tell us enough. That’s why we continue to repeat the same actions in a persisting cycle until we either reach a satisfactory conclusion or disappointingly walk away out of mental exhaustion.
Because of that, our perceptions are unreliable and only lead to cognitive bias. With every experience, we are left with a flood of incomplete data that scatters more pieces on the table of the big puzzle of life.
Deep down inside, we are always skeptical of all that we learn. We ask why, and we should, but we don’t follow through with gaining complete information, because we’re comfortable with what we know more than we accept to evolve our thinking.
This results in our brain demanding a new habit, an addiction to curiosity. Not the Albert Einstein type of curiosity, it’s an addiction to learn from others who have experienced that of which is incomplete to us.
With our newly found addiction, we develop comfort in acquiring knowledge and information that is perceived as interesting to our cognitive bias, so long that this knowledge does not conflict with our skewed perception.
We settle on accepting many ideas without truly knowing if they are reliable. We believe the ideas presented by those whom we perceive as “more experienced”. We then recount these ideas to others with enough conviction that we now sound “more experienced”, without necessarily finding evidence to legitimize the newly acquired knowledge.
Which means, for the most part, we really don’t know what we’re talking about. 🤦🏻♂️
Then, others become influenced by our experiences and repeat them further, if they don’t conflict with their perceptions, which are also skewed, … and the cycle continues.