DESCRIPTION – Work, partner, vacation spots… Our choices are dictated not only by our desire, but also by the shortcuts of the mind that imprison us. Two experts provide the keys to identify them and get rid of them.
“I would never dare”, “I am too young to apply for this position”, “I am too old to go to this concert”, “too tall to wear this”… Each of us has certain beliefs in our mind about our temperament, our temperament. . personality, or even what he is capable of or not. Our decisions are never made alone and are guided by thought patterns, also called cognitive biases, internal information processing processes that act as filters and define, independently of ourselves, our perception of the world. These “limiting” beliefs, as clinical psychologist Marion Blick (1) calls them, affect our behavior and our perception of others. Thus, they can unconsciously drive us to never leave the comfort of a failed path, never leave a job that no longer satisfies us, always repeat the same mistakes in love, or never even try a new sport as an adult.
Conformism
At the initiation of these limiting beliefs…
Source: Le Figaro
