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Identifying biases that affect decision-making
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Modern Life and Freedom
Modern life has provided us with a level of freedom that few of us know how to handle. Most of us are going through life doing whatever we want to do, and yet, paradoxically, we are not experiencing what real freedom is.
It’s the mentality of our early years, the education thrust upon us, the belief patterns, rules and regulations that make us fearful of even thinking of changing anything about our lives.
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Questioning Our Reality
We find out that the people we trusted were not trustworthy, the religion, belief pattern, family value or company policy that we blindly followed, was not worth it.
When we begin to question reality and true happiness, when the uncertain moments overwhelm us, then we are shocked to see t...
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Being On Our Own
People don’t really care what we are up to and are too tied up with their own struggles to bother about our living condition and state of mind.
We think we are indispensable, and people would miss us if we go away (like in our office), but we are forgotten in a week.
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Freedom and Responsibility
When we realize that no one is there for us, and we are ourselves responsible for our lives, and the future, we don’t have anyone to blame. We cannot say our parents made us like this, or give the excuse of our inactivity to some circumstance or situation because we are free.
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How We Perceived Freedom
Not even a century ago, the concept of freedom was extremely limited. Lack of communication and news meant that most of us were aloof and content in our lives, which consisted of our parents, relatives and neighbours, in the immediate vicinity. The figures of authority were followed religiously, ...
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HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MINDSET:
We all have the ability to change our mind-set to change our core inner beliefs upon which we base our view of ourselves and of the world. But changing our beliefs is not an easy thing to do.
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Productivity and Pursuing Wealth
We are obsessed with the idea that our potential for happiness is intricately tied to our freedom to pursue wealth. We think we must work harder and longer than the majority if we’re to amass a fortune so we can escape the drudgery of work as we know it.
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