Welcome to today's episode. Today we're going to be talking about why it is so hard for you to change.

Now, I will say this. I'm going to be talking about politics today. I don't want to talk about politics.

I'm not going to be talking about anything about politics itself. I'm going to be talking about the psychology that goes behind politics,

which will make sense when you think about politics or you think about religion, or you just think about your beliefs and why it's so hard to change from your beliefs.

And to give you an example and to go through this, I'm going to talk about politics right now.

If you live in America, if you happen to know it's going on in America, it's kind of crazy.

And just things are happening and nobody really knows what's going on. I feel like.

But once again, this is for politics, religion, beliefs. This could even be used talking about a sports team, which I'll talk about as well.

More than anything else is how your brain works and how your brain will latch onto something and doesn't want to give up once it latches onto that one thing.

And there's a couple of things in which a couple of terms I'm going to give you and go over to the first one is something called cognitive dissonance.

In cognitive dissonance, basically it's simplest for me. I believe this one thing. And when I think about this one thing, and I hear something that doesn't line up with that, there's dissonance between the two of them.

And so it basically shakes up the foundation of what I believe in, aka what I actually set my life up as. And whenever you got to think about this wave, if I believe this one thing and this other thing comes in it causes dissonance, it causes inconsistency in my brain.

And human brains do not like inconsistency because inconsistency is a threat because your brain, you've heard me say this a million times, only cares about your survival.

And so if it only cares about your survival, if there's some form of inconsistency, that can be dangerous. Now, or time out politics or religion or talking about a sports team, none of those are going to kill you if there's some dissonance.

But your brain doesn't know the difference between the two. And so it actually gives you a mental feeling, but also a physical feeling as well.

And so when we come across an inconsistency in the way that we feel or in our beliefs, we want to restore the consistency as soon as possible.

And so you'll do one of two things, either number one, you'll rationalize or number two, you're trivialize something.

And example of rationalizing, you know, if you look at the debates, for instance, you know, you'll hear somebody say something that's completely out of left field that if it wasn't anything to having to do with their political beliefs, somebody would probably be like, oh yeah, that was a terrible thing to say.

But because somebody says it and they happen to be the same political party, though rationalize that thing that that person said to then make them feel like they're back into a safe place in a place that's okay.

Now if someone from the other side comes and says something, they'll try to trivialize it. They'll try to make that thing.

You know, if somebody says something and they that's on the other side of me and they try to put themselves up, I want to try to break them down so that therefore I don't feel like they're above me or I don't feel like their political party is better than mine.

And so we'll dive deeper into these things. But what I want to talk about is why do we need to feel that feeling of resolve deep down inside of us?

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