Backwards rationalization, cognitive dissonance & social norms

This blog post inspired in part by The Charisma Myth, to be released February 2012.

When I am acting through my highest intentions and values then I am most clear-minded.

When I am not acting through my highest intentions and instead succumb to social pressure then I become prone to rationalization.

The phenomenon of liking someone because of rationalization is intimately related to succumbing to social pressure.

When we like something it is because we have decided that it has value.  Instead of dictating value from the top-down, we receive our values from the bottom-up.

Thus we are prone to cognitive dissonance, liking rationalization, when we accept someone else’s values.  We decide that we like that person because we took their values.  By definition, that is what liking is: we like things that match our values.

 

 



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  • http://twitter.com/Kevin_Velasco Kevin Velasco

    “When I am acting through my highest intentions and values then I am most clear-minded.”

    When I am aligned with my intuition or “operating from the heart”, I am more aligned with my highest intentions & values and experience more clarity and synchronicities.

    “When I am not acting through my highest intentions and instead succumb to social pressure then I become prone to rationalization.”

    When I do this, I feel I am “operating from the ego” instead. This often provides me with satisfaction in the short-term but gets me into some sort of trouble in the long-term.

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