The Perils of a Fixed Mind: How Fear and Insecurity Thrive in Stagnant Thinking

[SNOWFLAKE]

Came across this little tidbit and thought about some of my friends on here when I read it.

Fixed and stagnant minds have always been and will always be the perfect breeding ground for fear and insecurity. When we close ourselves off to new ideas, experiences, and perspectives, we create a vacuum in our minds that is quickly filled with negative thoughts and emotions. We become afraid of the unknown, and we start to doubt ourselves and our abilities.

This is because fixed and stagnant minds are unable to cope with change. They are stuck in the past, and they are resistant to anything that challenges their existing beliefs and assumptions. This makes them feel vulnerable and insecure, and it leads them to lash out in fear.

We can see this playing out in all aspects of life. From politics to religion to personal relationships, people with fixed and stagnant minds are often the ones who are most quick to anger, hatred, and violence. They are also the ones who are most likely to fall victim to conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation.

The good news is that it is possible to overcome a fixed and stagnant mind.

For those who want to stop having stagnant minds, the following link has suggestions for how to overcome your fears and insecurities:

The Perils of a Fixed Mind: How Fear and Insecurity Thrive in Stagnant Thinking

Fixed and stagnant minds have always been and will always be the perfect breeding ground for fear and insecurity. When we close ourselves off to new ideas, experiences, and perspectives, we create a vacuum in our minds that is quickly filled with negative thoughts and emotions.

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[tshade]

Came across this little tidbit and thought about some of my friends on here when I read it.



For those who want to stop having stagnant minds, the following link has suggestions for how to overcome your fears and insecurities:

The Perils of a Fixed Mind: How Fear and Insecurity Thrive in Stagnant Thinking

Fixed and stagnant minds have always been and will always be the perfect breeding ground for fear and insecurity. When we close ourselves off to new ideas, experiences, and perspectives, we create a vacuum in our minds that is quickly filled with negative thoughts and emotions.

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Very good, practical advice.

Let's hope trumper's absorb it a little....

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Very good, practical advice.

Let's hope trumper's absorb it a little....

Not going to happen.

 

[anatta]

nothing remains the same -change is inevitable. your prior conception always need a good dose of reality testing
Open minds understand you have to critique your concepts constantly

 

[ataraxia]

Religion tells us that it is teaching Ultimate Truths. Once people think they have that, why keep your eyes and mind open to anything new?

It’s no wonder that some of the most intolerant and stagnant societies in the world are also among the most religious. And it’s not just religion, of course. Even secular ideologies which believe they have ultimate truth, like communism, fall into that trap.

But ideologies which emphasize the METHOD and PROCESS, rather than any final outcome or final Ultimate Truth, do much better. This includes things like the methods and processes of science, or democracy.

This lack of commitment to any final result or outcome of this process is often seen as a weakness by the religionists. It’s dismissed as relativism. But it’s not, and is actually its strength. That’s what’s sacred.

That’s why there are such hostility towards and incessant attacks on science and democracy by those still holding the archaic fixed religious mindset. That is why religionists are viewed with such alarm by the rest of the modern world.

The fixed religious mindset is fundamentally incompatible with the modern world, and with science and democracy.