believe
we tend to choose to believe a set of rules, facts and principles for ourselves. because it will make everything much easier! there might be some good phones from xiaomi or htc or sony or … but of course it’s much easier to choose to believe samsung is the best and simply ignore everything else.
and another very important factor: consider a contest between 100 people with 10 winners. those who believe they are going to win, might win or not. but those who believe they are not going to win, will lose for sure. those who don’t believe special in anything might win or might lose, but winning definitely will be harder for them cause they are not fanatic.
negative beliefs
excuses, victim mentality, weak mentality, loser mentality, …
they work in the similar way by making everything easy for us. when we decide to believe these for ourselves it it’s easy to get rid of guilty conscience of not trying, sit down and not fight, be a failure and be proud of it.
glasses
everybody sees the world through their own glasses. optimisim, pessimism, realism, rationalism, transparent, opaque, …
Everybody thinks their loneliness/pain/depression/sadness/confusion/… is the biggest one in the world.
hope
hope is product of self-trust.
solution
for me that doesn’t believe in any specific thing, it can get really hard to do things in compare with some absent-minded person who beilieves everything gives him dopamine. so what’s the solution? maybe there’s no fully concrete solution for it (remember i’m not a beilever🤷♂️) but a good countermeasure is trying. my best shot is to try always my best - no matter how fucked up is the situation - so if it’s possible, it would happen.
of course it would not be as powerful as will of absent-minded fools who even give their lives for their fantasies but i’ve gotta do my best.