After Updating IOS & Android OS, Have You Updated Your BELIEFS?

After Updating IOS & Android OS, Have You Updated Your BELIEFS?

After Updating IOS & Android OS, Have You Updated Your BELIEFS?  I doubt it, seriously.  Instinctively, we'd like to learn new things.  And if that outcome is achieved, surely, you get a rush of DOPAMINE, that reward chemical.  You will then feel good and you would have UPDATED YOUR BELIEFS.  Really?  That sounds like a stretch beyond learning.  It might suggest that your BELIEFS are either outdated, inaccurate OR even wrong.  If I told you that WHAT you believe about the world is WRONG, it's possible that you'd instinctively defend your position and aim to prove that it is me WHO is wrong📗📙📘

So, we're hitting the mother of IRONIES here and we'd claim that we like to LEARN but we DON'T want to CHANGE.  And to be specific, it seems we DON'T want to change our beliefs.  Researches show that SELF-BELIEF, or CONFIDENCE in our BELIEFS is corelated to low competence.  WHO would believe that?  Now, CONFIDENCE is something we all want✅✅✅

However, by being less CONFIDENT, we open up the possibility of learning and updating our beliefs.  On the other hand, WHO thinks it's good to be AVERAGE?  Somehow, having an AVERAGE level of competence OR being open to learning, results in an AVERAGE level of CONFIDENCE.  On that path to mastery, this is a BELIEF that will hold us to our humility and encourage us to keep learning.  Studies show that it's common to over-estimate our ability, knowledge and understanding of subjects.  This begets confidence and a belief that we know much of WHAT there is to know.  To quote Shakespeare, 'THE FOOL DOTH THINK HE IS WISE, BUT THE WISE MAN KNOWS HIMSELF TO BE A FOOL'.  After Updating IOS & Android OS, Have You Updated Your BELIEFS❓❓❓

These days when even the most non-techie end-user knows how to updates either IOS or Android OS, the question to us all is how often do we press 'REFRESH' or 'UPDATE' and perform CRITICAL UPDATES to our BELIEF systems?  OR are they deeply formed, rigorously tested and perfect to their design?  Truth is, far too many folks seem to base their IDENTITY and choices to their BELIEFS [a.k.a. OPINIONS] instead of their VALUES✅✅✅

Questioning WHAT we think we know OR WHAT we think we believe in OR even WHAT we believe to be true, all these are critical skills we got to equip ourselves.  So, before we get mixed up, it is imperative that we clearly differentiate BELIEFS versus VALUES.  While BELIEFS are derived from external sources, e.g. culture, family, religion, education etc, VALUES are core principles that guide our BEHAVIORS.  They tend to be more enduring and are generally tied to emotions and ethics.  VALUES can be influenced by beliefs BUT they are generally more about WHAT we deem important in life.  What's our takeaway today?  Beyond updating our BELIEFS, we need to reinforce our awareness of our VALUES as they are the very bedrock and foundations of our persona.  So, After Updating IOS & Android OS, Have You Updated Your BELIEFS❓❓❓