Title: How Our Beliefs and Values Shape Our Behavior: A Beginner's Guide
Headings: How Our Beliefs and Values Shape Our Behavior: A Beginner’s Guide
How Our Beliefs and Values Shape Our Behavior: A Beginner’s Guide
Table of Contents
Our Beliefs
Beliefs About Ourselves
Beliefs About Others
Beliefs About Life And The World
Our Values
Morals
Ethics
Defining Your Belief and Value Systems
Your values and beliefs are not fixed
Summary
Your Attitudes and Behaviors
Your Self-Awareness
Other Values and Beliefs Resources
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Beliefs About Life And The World
Things like “life sucks,” “everything is terrible,” or, just the opposite, “the world is full of possibilities,” are all beliefs we develop about the outside world. We formulate such beliefs about our closest world (like our home or street) all the way up to humanity as a whole. Although we are not proud to share it, we secretly slice and dice the world into little boxes, and we have beliefs about each one of them. Of course, our opinion about a group of people is relative to our own situation and context. People in high socio-economic environments might think that people in low socio-economic backgrounds do not work hard enough. The latter group might think that the former had everything handed to them on a platter. Although there is a possibility for these thoughts to be objectively true, they are mostly not. We develop these biases toward the world because of an innate need to justify our place in it. While beliefs about others and the world generate our stereotypes and can lead to xenophobia, racism, and sexism, or the literal opposite of all of those, beliefs about ourselves drive our self-image.