Confirmation bias guarantees that you can find hundreds of sources to confirm every thought that might ever cross your mind.
Does it prove your thought right? No.
And that is only because there are also hundreds of sources to prove it wrong.
Confirmation bias also applies to the people we choose to surround ourselves with — the people we befriend, love, work with, and more. We tend to pair ourselves with those who confirm our mindsets, doubts, struggles, and preferences. This way, what we think becomes normalized; it becomes okay. It helps us be the coherent selves we want to be.
Choosing your surroundings driven by bias is good only if it confirms your good thoughts; your enlightened perspectives about things. It is however tragic if it confirms your recurrent fallacies or your systematic erroneous perspectives on life.
Realizing this duality can make us better people every day.
It takes effort to stick around people who profoundly disagree with us.
It takes courage to listen to what they have to say.
It takes a lot of humility and vulnerability to decide to adapt and change.
Better hear more No than Yes.
Better disagree than agree.
Better grow than stay put!
