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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Content: I’m just a bad speller.” You see, in time, beliefs become labels. We plaster them on our foreheads and use them to justify our action or inaction. They serve as a mental pacifier to allow us to keep the status quo. Instead of learning how to spell, it’s much easier to label yourself as a lousy speller. Instead of learning how to manage time, saying you are a procrastinator gives you a convenient carte blanche to maintain your existing behavior. Interestingly enough, an objectively true fact might turn into a positive or negative belief depending on the person. For instance, you might be the shortest kid in your class—that would be a fact—but you can think of that as an advantage or a disadvantage. That belief will then drive how you behave as you interpret it as being damning or empowering. 2
Beliefs About Others
These beliefs are usually indoctrinated into our heads by our mentors and parents (such as that group of people over there is evil, unlike we who are all saints ).