Misinformation

How many of your beliefs are based on misinformation? More than you think. Find out the secret to debunking misinformation.

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Transcript

Misinformation

Here’s a sobering thought from The Grasshopper: “Many of our beliefs are misinformation etched in stone.”

It’s somewhat challenging to one’s pride that much of what we believe can't be substantiated, or it’s downright inaccurate.

Do you have a good luck charm or a lucky ritual? If you ever investigated the amount of good luck they've brought you, you’d trade them in for new models – ones that work equally inefficiently.

You would truly be amazed at the number of times St. Christopher has fallen asleep during a traffic mishap, or how "un-hole-y" your lucky golf socks are.

Most of the misinformation that forms our beliefs got in there by accident. That means they were someone else’s beliefs handed down from generation to generation to us without any vetting being done.

They’re the commandments we live our life by.

So how does misinformation etched in stone go away?

Erosion is one method, but that can take more lifetimes than a Hindu has.

Again, it’s recognition to the rescue. Recognition of misinformation is like sandblasting your stone tablet of beliefs, giving you a clean slate.

Here’s an interesting tidbit about our beliefs that are jam packed with misinformation: Sometimes they give us hope.

Forget for a moment that it may be false hope. But, this hope got us over humps that we couldn’t have scaled without it. Hope can get us to a point where our emotions are less in the way, allowing us to take on the job of recognizing what doesn’t work.

Some people aren’t ready for the reality of recognition yet. It’s too scary for them. They need to hope a little more that what they believe in will come true. Once in a blue moon they get lucky; most often they suffer.

“The unexamined life is not worth living,” said Socrates. He could have just as easily substituted the word “Belief” for “Life” and the message would be just as powerful.

Examination leads to recognition of misinformation, and it is our saving grace.

If your hope is working overtime and you're not getting compensated, it may be time to change jobs. I hear recognition is hiring.

All the best,

John