1. As humans, we make life choices that harmonize with our beliefs. We unconsciously choose to put ourselves in situations and associate with people that fit our preconceptions. We avoid people and situations that might weaken or challenge what we believe to be true.
2. We practice selective attention or inattention depending on the circumstance. Our minds tune into phenomena that confirm our beliefs while ignoring, avoiding, deleting, or violently reacting to anything that could weaken that belief. We selectively remember events that support what we want to believe is true and selectively forget events that show us otherwise.
3. We automatically distort, mold, or exaggerate evidence to reasonable fit our beliefs.
4. As a last ditch effort, we may also rationalize contradictory evidence to uphold a belief. Often this involves misinterpreting someone’s motives, and/or convincing yourself of a motive that really isn’t there.
I’m totally digging all this psychological mumbo-jumbo as I create the all new DancerWise program.
1. I gave a dance to a very nice older lady last night. “That’s it?” she asked when I finished my lame airdance. “Uh…yep twenty please.” Apparently she was a Bible-Humper, and held the belief that strip clubs were dens of sin and prostitution. Kudos to her for challenging her belief. It’s a good thing she picked Babe’s in Scottsdale and not Mitchell Brother’s in San Francisco to confirm/deny her preconcieved belief.
2. My good friend just got her heart ripped out by some douchebag. Although they hadn’t been dating long, she only paid attention to the good things about him, and ignored the situations where his true intentions began to show.
3. Strip clubs are a fantasy land. Most patrons can distinguish between the reality of paying $20 for a few minutes of topless entertainment. Others will exaggerate an entertainers weekly follow up sales call into something else.
4. Refer back to number 2
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