Idea Inertia
#big-ideas #friction
Once we let an idea take hold it requires a significant amount of energy to change the way we think. ==Inertia states that an object in motion stays in motion. Our ideas aren’t driven by any physical force, but they have inertia due to Confirmation Bias.== Your political, social, and religious beliefs stem from the original ideas you spent the time encoding into your memory and the inertia built by looking for evidence that confirmed them as reality for years.
Morgan Housel says "Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works." It’s hard to change old habits and beliefs once they become engrained.
To change them requires a significant amount of friction, but to have the wrong ideas exist in a vacuum allows us to cling to them forever. You should adapt to what is truth.