How To Deal With Cognitive Dissonance | Rich Roll Podcast 

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Cognitive Dissonance "In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them."- Wikipedia This is how people who eat meat dairy and eggs can still think of themselves as "animal lovers" even after they learn the facts. Their actions don't match their values.

Mindfulness as Rich suggests is an effort to close/balance the emotional gate after the horse has already bolted. Disequilibrium currently begins ubiquitously in infancy. Mindfulness has to also or we will never not suffer cognitive dissonance.

This isn't cognitive dissonance. CD is when one person, internally, has conflicting values, beliefs, etc. When two separate people have conflicting values, beliefs, etc. its called disagreement.

You will NEVER find it in the external world, we need to learn to FEEL our true inner essance and inner BE - ING - NESS . Eyes mind heart and soul wide open no fear. Love you all. !!!

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Rich thank you for today’s podcast on cognitive dissonance. While I think you make some valid points to help explain why we are fragmented and see the same event in polar opposite ways, I would ask you to consider what I believe is the dumbing down of America. Critical analysis and drawing logical conclusions based on objective data points is declining. Common sense is not common. Further while I’d like to keep trump and politics out of the discussion, I believe trump has in a large measure incited two people to see the same event completely differently. Rich, please keep the conversation going.

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Being conscious isn't about what you know, it is more aimed at realizing the possibilities of what you do not know.

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Wise words .., be a voice of harmony.

Loved this conversation between you. Thank you

This was amazing. So insightful and eloquent Rich as always.

Critical thinking is a lost art, for sure.

wow, love the amount of thought and time given to this important subject that people need to pay attention to. Love this channel. Thank you

These conversations are very good 👍

exceptional video

Thanks Rich✨

This is gold

Public transportation helped a lot. Even a lot see who can't afford a car can get to where people are and where they need to be to help themselves. USA makes life so hard for it's citizens and then shames them for it.

This is why I was healthier in NYC. It was a city of outsiders.

Dissonance … Harmony … “that’s a better **note** to end on” … WORD …

Who decides what is or is not a "counter-factual narrative"?

Ever since we separated the word "intentional" from community we redefined the word community. Cities have become wall-less prisons that force most people to work with people they don't know, at jobs they don't want to live in places they aren't comfortable in for the promise of living a life that doesn't really exist. This system created intentional cognitive dissonance in order to make people dependent on the governments that don't want to help the public.

Mindfulness is an effort to close the emotional gate after the horse has already bolted. Disequilibrium begins in infancy. Mindfulness has to also.

Intriguing… the idea that we are constructing our own avatars; but once established, we are loath to trash it and start afresh- having to work through all those levels of thinking and learning. Much easier just to tweak what we already have, even if it means having to turn it inside out. I’m not sure it’s a function of estrangement from the community. However, it probably doesn’t have something to do with no longer valuing community (and caring about other people, and being responsible for others, helping and accepting those in need or who are different or vulnerable). It’s probably the fruit of various movements that value independence and “freedom” (without responsibility or accountability or consequences)… Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Fred & Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, William & Jacob and Rees-Mogg, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, the list is endless…

Wait, so hes defining cognitive dissonance as how 2 people look at the same event and walk away with different conclusions. I'm confused I thought cognitive dissonance was when your actions and behaviors in a situation didn't line up to your values and beliefs and so you try to make it seem like the other person was bad to continue to keep you feeling good about actions or behaviors that were bad that you did. Somebody, please help me out here.

I don’t know if anybody understands what these guys are talking about

Being disenfranchised is not a point of view or a perception issue. Income inequality in the US is the highest in the G7. When 47 families control over 50% of the wealth in the US, 1% own 50% of the Stock Market and 10% own 92% of the Stock market. In all US States, full time workers can not afford to pay their rent. Now, this month. 80% of the population have less than a months rent as savings. The pandemic has highlighted how unequal and rigged the system is against the majority of the population. people are angry, feeling lost and living in despair. The level of inequality and poverty in the US is higher than Brazil or Pakistan. Social mobility is higher in Pakistan than in the US. The top 1% have hijacked the economy, bought the parties and own the media. Where the Cares Act (March 2020) gave $4.2 TRILLION to the top 5% of the population (with no oversight) and a $1;200 cheque to each person. With all respect Rich (and I love your show and book) no amount of mindfulness and referral to Guru Singh will stop you from being evicted during a pandemic and stop the spiral into abject poverty. That's not a perception problem. If you have a family and you're homeless, that's a very real problem. Yes, the country is going to hell, but this time its very real. Rich, referring to what your colleague said that feeling disenfranchised is a perception thing rings of a person who really hasn't a fucking clue what they are talking about. Sorry for the bad language but, at a time like this, its a truly uninformed and stupid thing to say. Yet, typical of liberals who think in some way they are insightful and progressive. Sorry, those comments triggered me. Big time. And to dig a little deeper, the reason a lot of people voted Trump and will again, is because the feel disenfranchised and live in despair, with no agency. History has show people look to the strong man for answers. They are not just racists ( although some of them are) they need answers to their very real problems. Trump, by the way wont give them the answers he'll just point at immigrants and Mexicans but neither will Biden do anything either. And the liberal class has done nothing to help. As they have no ideas to offer and haven't a clue what to do. (Read 'Death of the Liberal Class' - Chris Hedges). As clearly demonstrated by your colleague's comments. You should have Chris Hedges on. He will articulate this issue like no other. Bye, with Metta.