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May 2025
Your Inner Monologue Is Lying to You
In The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously wrote: “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” From the moment we’re born, language plays a central role in both creating and potentially overcoming the chains that bind us. The internalized stories we tell ourselves shape our thought patterns and, ultimately, our reality. Language forms the foundation of our beliefs, which in turn instruct the brain on what to focus on. Our brains then seek out and highlight information that confirms these existing beliefs, a practice known as confirmation bias.
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