Before I consider buying or investing in anything I read reviews. I prefer hearing from real people.

Both are full of misinformation and can lead to flawed beliefs.

Beliefs are strange creatures. They feel like truths, but they’re often just old stories we’ve repeated enough times to mistake for facts. Some of them are harmless (“I can’t sing in tune”), some are quietly destructive (“I don’t deserve love”), and some as we’ve seen in the wild world of public discourse can lead to outright delusion.

Take vaccines. During my undergrad, I studied vaccine design. I’ve seen what goes into the research, the engineering, the safety trials. I know, for a fact, that Bill Gates is not injecting 5G into anyone. Yet millions of people believed this (and some still might). They didn’t arrive at that belief through data; they inherited it from fear, from confusion, from echo chambers which confirmed things they felt they already knew.

That’s how most beliefs begin not as reasoned conclusions, but as emotional shortcuts. The brain, hungry for certainty, prefers a bad story to no story at all.

Beliefs as Misinformation Loops

Misinformation isn’t only about politics or pseudoscience. It’s also the architecture of our inner world.

When you were small, maybe you learned that asking for help meant weakness, or that being too loud made people pull away. Those impressions weren’t facts; they were data points interpreted by a child’s nervous system. But they calcified into “truths.”

“I’m too much.”
“I always mess things up.”
“Nobody really cares what I think.”

These beliefs are outdated self-protective codes, written before you had context, nuance or could see the bigger picture. They were formed when you thought the tooth fairy was real. They served you once, but now they run like bad software in the background, limiting what you try, how you love, what you expect.

Why the Brain Clings to the Wrong Story

Cognitively, humans equate familiarity with safety. When a belief has been rehearsed long enough even a painful one the brain mistakes it for protection. Changing your mind, especially about yourself, feels dangerous.

That’s why people double down on misinformation, whether it’s about vaccines or their own worth. It’s not stupidity, it’s self-preservation. The ego would rather be certain in who it is and wrong than uncertain about who it is and right.

How to Start the Rewrite

When you catch a belief that hurts: “I’m behind,” “I’m broken,” “I’m not enough” treat it like a viral meme. Don’t argue with it and don’t take it too seriously either. If you can get curious. Where did it start? Who said it first? How old were you when you started repeating it?

Then fact-check it. Not with data, but with experience. Is it true every time, or just sometimes? Can you find a single counterexample? If so, the story cracks. When was this belief first formed? What do you know now that you didn’t them?

This is how we cna start to unpack our beliefs and evolve them: not through force, but through curiosity.

So when you feel shame, doubt, or the dull ache of “I can’t” remember: that might not be your voice. It might just be an old algorithm, written by someone who didn’t know you’d grow this much.

If this feels like something you’re meanignfully ready to change and you want support with it, I offer complimentary 15-20 minute calls where we can explore your situation and how working together might help.

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Bex

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