Motivated Reasoning

We humans tend to rely on motivated reasoning. We believe in things based on the ability of these ideas to reassure us or reaffirm how we view ourselves and the world. When our precious reasoning is questioned, the easiest conclusion to make is that other people are deluded or possibly evil. We believe that we are the ones who can see what is ‘really going on’, and utopia awaits if we can only get everyone else on the same page.

The only way out of this mess is to question our own reasoning. Instead of clinging onto our beliefs, we become humble enough to admit how little we actually know. We start to see that so much of what we believe is just a response to fear. Even our most rational thoughts may be little more than magical thinking. Instead of turning to the thinking-mind to provide more bricks for our mental prison, we turn to stillness for our escape.

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