Trust
Beliefs and ideas we don’t question
AKA Faith
AKA, belief
- We all have them. In some, it’s expressed in religion. In others, it’s expressed in the certainty the sun will rise — even if we believe in a flat earth or have little understanding of orbital mechanics.
- Most of our faith is the result of trusting a source entity.
- It helps us get through our chaos.
- Trust A for recipes
- Trust B for car maintenance
- Trust C to keep a good eye on politics
- Trust D for reasonable ethics and precepts
- But when A becomes fervent about politics, based on our trust in one aspect we might listen more closely, and potentially even take it as an unquestioned aspect of our fabric of reality. It’s a cognitive bias.
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