there are five ways that we learn things

Keyword learning there are five ways that we learn things. These five infection mechanisms are one childhood indoctrination where we absorb most believe some critically as children during our maturity period. Two is authority figures which are the men and women of our tribe when we see his authority figures usually people we depend on in some way and are powerful installers of rules. That includes our parents, relatives, caregivers, teachers, etc. some of these people are wise people and have our best interests in mind and they want to impart rules that will service well in life. Three is the need to be long where we have a tendency to take on rules because we want to fit in. We're a tribal species that evolve to find security and kinship with each other and groups. It is safer than going get a loan. Therefore survival depends on being accepted within the tribe. But sometimes in order to be part of a tribe, we take on the tribes beliefs, irrational as those may be. So in exchange for acceptance we pay a price in individuality and independence. Four is social proof which is when we take on rules because someone says an effect everyone's doing it in other words we're adapting beliefs through social proof. This is like approval by proxy. We believe what someone else tells us to save ourselves the effort of assessing the truth of it for ourselves. If we are led to think that everyone is doing it, believing good or buying it then we decide maybe we should do. And the last is our internal and securities where we create reasons to deal with our insecurities rather than logically trying to figure out what is going on.

— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Code of the extraordinary mind

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Be suspicious, too, of where your beliefs came from. We absorb most of them uncritically — through childhood indoctrination, through authority figures, through the need to belong, through social proof, and through our own insecurities. The remedy is to question everything, to pass every claim through a sieve and lodge nothing in your head on mere authority and trust. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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