Brain and Beliefs

Your brain may have adopted a belief for a variety of reasons:

• You decide something is true because an authority figure said it was true (e.g., parents, teachers, clerics, politicians)
• You adopted what your per group believes
• You and your brain came to its own conclusion about something based on personal experience
• You joined an organization because you liked the dogma or rules it espoused
• You obtained additional education and information that gave you a different perspective
• You were curious and joined a cult or militant organization and were “brainwashed”   
• You allowed yourself to live in a state of anger about something you perceived as injustice (whether or not you could do something about it) and that gradually warped your perspective
• You name it . . .

More tomorrow.