12/4/20
People believe what they want to believe, see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear.
The book *D-Day Through German Eyes* interviewed surviving Nazi soldiers, asking them what they saw when the Allies came ashore in France.
One German soldier said he and his fellow troops were shocked at how angry the Americans were at the Germans. They couldn’t understand why. Germans, he said, had been so thoroughly indoctrinated to believe they were the good guys, the guardians of Europe, that they couldn’t fathom how anyone could see it differently.
Generally, the moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it and become blind to the arguments against it.
Also known as the *Illusory truth effect*, it is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure.
It is often followed by the *Confirmation Bias* approach which is the tendency to search for, interpret, look for and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one’s prior beliefs or values.
That is how stock markets become irrational, how a belief system gets established, whether right or wrong, the so called Dharmic Gurus create a following and many such phenomenon happens.
This too shall pass,
Be wary of believing false truths and accepting them as normal and stay blessed forever.