People believe what they want to believe. Beliefs are formed when an idea is reinforced either by logic, physical or empirical data, or by how the idea makes us feel. The three areas of our brain are logical, physical, and emotional. The feeling a person gets when they hear an idea usually determines if they will turn the idea into a belief. If their world makes more sense or feels better with the new idea, people are convinced that the idea must be correct. Truth changes.
speak directly to the person, not the persona. Everyone has a persona that they have constructed because of past social experiences and expectations. When you meet someone for the first time, you meet the persona they want you to meet, which is usually very different from who the person really is. Comedians are broken people, so they create jokes to deal with life. Beautiful women are the ones most concerned with how they look. Aggressive women are often very submissive in bed. Their aggression is their persona to keep from getting hurt by those around them. You cannot listen to the words women say, it is a persona. Look deeper for the reason behind what they are saying. Connect with the person and pretend you don’t even see the persona. Her persona is not real, it is a socially constructed defensive barrier.
Everyone knows women want men who have confidence, but what is confidence? Confidence literally means “With faith.” When a scientist randomly divided his lab rats into two groups, they were physically the same. He put each rat from the first group individually into a tub of water made opaque with milk. There was a ledge just underwater and out of sight that the rats could rest on if they found it, and all the rats found it before they were pulled out of the water and put back into their cages. The second group was put individually into the same tub but without the underwater support ledge to rest on. They were kept in for the same amount of time as the other rats, and then put back in their cage. The scientist then put each rat from both groups into the tub without the support. He put them in one by one and noted the time when their noses slipped underwater. (He saved all the rats before they died) The scientist found that the rats who were first placed in the tank with the underwater ledge were able to keep swimming for twice as long as the ones who were never placed in the tub with the underwater ledge.
This makes having faith much more than just an abstract concept.
Faith keeps us alive.
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