In the mind, we develop attitudes. They are ways of thinking that we have ingrained. And they are strong building blocks for forming our real and virtual worlds. These mental habits (attitudes) can be changed. But to do so, we will have to ingrain new attitudes (new mental habits). That requires thought because attitudes are thoughts, too.
How Attitudes Form
To develop an attitude, a thought finds other thoughts that support its logic and its emotion and they bond together to form attitudes. So attitudes are ways of thinking and we apply them in multiple situations.
Attitudes Are Emotional, Not Logical
Our attitudes have more to do with emotion and less to do with logic. Attitudes express how we feel.
To change attitudes we must:
- Identify our attitudes.
- Dislodge the old attitude by installing a new attitude.
- Install the new one with strong emotional reasons.
- Use our analytical brain to help change the way we feel.
Attitudes Are Thoughts
Let this information sink in! INGRAIN IT!!! If you will ponder it seriously, this is enough for this week.
Our first and most important task in a world-changing mission is to learn how to think straight (and teach straight thinking) and combat the insurgence of crooked thinking in our culture and in our world today. If we become passive victims of this crooked way of thinking, we promote it. If we remain silent, we also give it credence. In Who Am I?, the reader progresses from how we have become “crooked thinkers” to how to break out of this prison of the mind (which is enslaving us) to become instruments of change for a better world by recognizing from where our value as humans is derived. “Build a straight and powerful mind.” ~ Ray W. Lincoln
DISCOVER THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE!
Lean into the whole truth. Discover the truth of who YOU are — the “Real You” — and who your children truly are. Discover how to best engage your children in finding the whole truth. INNERKINETICS, Your Blueprint to Excellence and Happiness, is a great resource.