Nir Eyal

And so it turns out that we can actually create pain and suffering in our lives where it doesn't necessarily have to exist.

And that's psychological as well as physiological.

Yeah, yeah.

So I didn't answer your last question, but this brings it up perfectly.

What is the difference between fact, faith, and belief?

So a fact is an objective truth.

It is something that is true whether or not you believe it.

The world is more like a sphere than it is flat.

Sorry, flat earthers.

It's a fact.

Faith is a conviction that does not require evidence.

God rewards the righteous.

There is no amount of evidence that I can give to someone who has faith in that statement because no evidence is required.

Belief is somewhere in the middle.

Belief is not fact.

Belief is not faith.

Belief is a conviction that is open to revision based on new evidence.

So unlike facts and faith, beliefs can change.

The problem is that too many of us

think that what we take as faith is a fact and don't understand that what we think is a fact is nothing more than a belief.