Dr. Todd Rose

It could be true.

It's these basic day-to-day things and just say, honestly, do we still like doing this?

You know what I mean?

And just ask, you will be shocked at how many of these, someone's going, well, actually, if you give me the permission to be honest,

Like, actually, maybe we could shake that up a bit.

So if illusions can happen amongst tightly knit relationships, it's not surprising that they can happen in a country of 300 million people at a societal level.

Think about it.

You have all these identities and you're tied to these groups that matter to you, but they consist of people you're probably never going to meet.

And you have to guess, what does that group believe?

You know what I mean?

So I can know what it is I'm trying to align to.

And here's the thing about your brain that is just crazy, is how your brain estimates what your group believes.

Because you'd imagine given how important it is with conformity and belonging, you'd have some sophisticated way that your brain calculates like, on average, this is what my group believes.

Now, there's a shortcut your brain takes.

No kidding.

Your brain assumes the loudest voices repeated the most are the majority.

Even when you know it's not true, even intellectually, you know, oh, this is just Mel telling me this over and over again.

That's your brain is keeping score this way.

So it must have worked.

You evolved to have the shortcut, but you put that into a social media age.