On a personal level, this means that will not be able to accept something as true until you have a basic idea of what you would do if that was true.
The fourth question of The Work is: “Who would you be without that thought?”, intended to provoke a near-mode, concrete prediction of what your life would be like if you were not thinking/believing the thought in question.
Which is to say that it is also hard to accept something is not true until you have a basic idea of what you would do if it were false. ;-)
Also, the energy model presented in this article is, I think, a very good one. The idea that we reject new models unless they’re comprehensively better, yet continue using old ones until they can be comprehensively disproven, is an apt description of the core difficulties in Actually Changing One’s Mind at the level of emotional “knowledge” and assumptions.
I also like the hierarchical processing part—it’ll give me another tool to explain why changing general beliefs and patterns of behavior requires digging into details of experience, and provides a good intuition pump for seeing why you can’t just “decide” to think differently and have it work, if the belief in question is a predictive or evaluative alief, rather than just a verbal profession to others.
The fourth question of The Work is: “Who would you be without that thought?”, intended to provoke a near-mode, concrete prediction of what your life would be like if you were not thinking/believing the thought in question.
Which is to say that it is also hard to accept something is not true until you have a basic idea of what you would do if it were false. ;-)
Also, the energy model presented in this article is, I think, a very good one. The idea that we reject new models unless they’re comprehensively better, yet continue using old ones until they can be comprehensively disproven, is an apt description of the core difficulties in Actually Changing One’s Mind at the level of emotional “knowledge” and assumptions.
I also like the hierarchical processing part—it’ll give me another tool to explain why changing general beliefs and patterns of behavior requires digging into details of experience, and provides a good intuition pump for seeing why you can’t just “decide” to think differently and have it work, if the belief in question is a predictive or evaluative alief, rather than just a verbal profession to others.