Episode 336 - The Dr. Cloud Show Live - Shorts - Confirmation Bias Keeps Us Stuck
The Boundaries.me Podcast
Greg Bowler
4.7 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this short from The Dr. Cloud Show, why are you stuck repeating the same patterns, especially with difficult people in your life? How does confirmation bias keep us trapped in dysfunctional situations? What can you do to get out of it?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'll be here with the Dr. Cloud Show. |
| 0:09.3 | We've got a new short coming up for you. |
| 0:10.9 | We're calling it confirmation bias keeps us stuck. |
| 0:14.1 | It's all about how. |
| 0:15.8 | When we go into a situation looking to confirm something, |
| 0:19.2 | it'll often result in us finding the same result we've |
| 0:21.4 | gotten before. A quick reminder, we do have an upcoming workshop. It'll be on April 12th at 5 p.m. |
| 0:27.1 | Pacific. It's called Mentally Healthy Faith. It's Dr. Cloud's prescription for spiritual growth. |
| 0:32.6 | He's going to go into all the things he's learned over the years about how faith has intertwined with |
| 0:38.1 | his mental health and we think you're going to find it incredibly insightful. You can find out |
| 0:42.4 | more about it in the description of this podcast. There was a link in there, or you can just go to |
| 0:47.1 | Boundaries.me forward slash faith. Boundaries.me forward slash faith. If you can't attend it live, |
| 0:52.6 | the recording will be available for you to stream afterward as much as you like. We hope you enjoy this podcast short coming up on |
| 0:58.6 | confirmation bias and how it keeps us stuck. Thanks for listening. |
| 1:03.4 | We'll talk a little bit about something that you have experienced 8,000 times probably, |
| 1:13.0 | especially if you have some difficult people to deal with. |
| 1:18.1 | It is rare that difficult people do not have this dynamic operating in their heads. |
| 1:25.7 | And it's also rare that humans don't have this operating in our heads, in a sense, because we really need it to survive in a way. |
| 1:38.3 | So what am I talking about? |
| 1:41.3 | Well, talking about something, for lack of a better word, today, we will call it confirmation bias. |
| 1:48.9 | Confirmation bias. And what that basically means is that we have a tendency to engage with the world with our existing ways of seeing the world. |
| 2:05.6 | We make maps of the world. |
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