Veterinary Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - Making Up Stories

The brain learns in stories, and it learns so well in stories that before you’re 10 years old, your brain is creating it’s own stories in order to explain the world in a way that makes sense to you.

This is how those wild conspiracy theories come about…people look at the same information you have and come to a completely different conclusion. That makes brain sense because they’ve lived a completely different life than you have. They’ve been exposed to different opinions and biases, they’ve lived through different events, or through the same large world events from a different vantage point, and it only makes sense that they could come to a different conclusion.

Before you condemn someone or try to make them understand your point of view, remember – their brain learns in stories, just like yours does. And their brain creates stories that make sense to them, based on their life experiences, just like yours does. No matter how wild their conclusion may seem to you, remember that it feels right to them.

It’s this diversity of opinions that keeps life interesting, as long as you don’t use it as an opportunity to argue your own point of view all the time. 

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