Dr. Alia Crum

So choose wisely and know that the choices that you make interact with the world in ways that make it so.

And the other thing I'll just say in response is...

We shouldn't be to blame for our beliefs, our settings in the mind.

And we can talk about this.

They're shaped by our cultures, by our upbringing, by our parents in ways that we may never fully understand.

But while we shouldn't be to blame for them, we should know that we can be empowered to change them.

At any given moment, at any given time, you have the power to flip the switch.

They start happening the minute you're born and they stop happening the moment you die, right?

Our brains are constantly trying to make sense of the world and it's taking in this information, but it's too much.

It's too much to take in.

So it's relying on these

simplified assumptions or theories, right?

So it's like, oh, this person's safe.

Check, set it and forget it.

Oh, like your body can heal itself with time.

Oh, check, set that and forget it.

Oh, you're the type of person who gets sick on planes.

You better worry about that.

Right.

And then it can be updated, but oftentimes it's searching for information.