I think this is the saddest part of the human brain; it tends to hold on to what it wants to believe rather than seeing the truth.<\/p>\n
Because truth is tiring.
\nIt forces people to change.
\nBut the human mind often wants to be right, not to change.<\/p>\n
There is a system that works deep inside the brain. The Reticular Activation System. RAS for short. It decides which of the millions of details in life we will notice. It's like an invisible filter.<\/p>\n
But here's the thing.
\nOne begins to live without realizing this filter.<\/p>\n
If he is mired in fear, he sees threats everywhere.
\nWhen he is in a rage, everyone feels like an enemy.
\nIf they are blindly attached to a leader, they can deny even the most obvious truth.<\/p>\n
Because the brain is trying to protect what one believes in.
\nNot the truth.<\/p>\n
This is why two people looking at the same event can see completely different things.
\nWhat one calls \u201cjustice\u201d the other calls \u201cbetrayal\u201d.
\nWhat one calls \u201cfreedom\u201d the other calls \u201cdanger\u201d.<\/p>\n
And man often does not realize the game his own mind is playing on him.<\/p>\n
Here's what's worse.
\nOne thinks most of all with one's wounds.<\/p>\n
Someone who was humiliated as a child can even years later mistake a minor criticism as an attack.
\nSomeone who is constantly made to feel worthless breaks down at the slightest rejection.
\nSocieties raised in fear begin to seek refuge with anyone who seems powerful.<\/p>\n
Because the mind is not only shaped by knowledge.
\nIt is also shaped by pain.<\/p>\n
Maybe that's why it's so hard to think objectively.
\nBecause man does not think only with his mind.
\nHe thinks about his resentments, his fears, his ego, his past.<\/p>\n
In the age of social media, this system works even more ferociously.
\nAlgorithms now feed the human RAS system.
\nThey show whatever you are angry about.
\nWhatever you are afraid of, they magnify it.
\nWhoever you are angry at, they put them in front of you all the time.<\/p>\n
And after a while one starts to believe that the world is really that dark.<\/p>\n
But maybe he is just wandering in the darkness of his own mind.<\/p>\n
Healthy thinking is not about saying big words.
\nSometimes it's just to stop and ask yourself the question<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if I'm wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n
This is where maturity starts a little bit.<\/p>\n
Because fanaticism does not only exist in politics.
\nSometimes one becomes a fanatic of one's own pain.
\nA fanatic of his own anger, his own story, his own victimization...<\/p>\n
And that is when one loses the truth the most.<\/p>\n
I have seen many people in life.
\nPeople who read a lot but can't think...
\nPeople who talk a lot but never hear...
\nPeople who are always trying to be right but never once look at themselves from the outside...<\/p>\n
I think this is where wisdom starts a little bit.
\nIn learning to doubt one's own mind before trusting it.<\/p>\n
Because the human brain can sometimes become the biggest curtain that hides the truth.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u0130nsan beyninin en ac\u0131kl\u0131 taraf\u0131 \u015fudur san\u0131r\u0131m; Ger\u00e7e\u011fi g\u00f6rmekten \u00e7ok, inanmak istedi\u011fi \u015feye tutunmaya meyillidir. \u00c7\u00fcnk\u00fc hakikat yorucudur. \u0130nsan\u0131 de\u011fi\u015fmeye zorlar. Oysa insan zihni \u00e7o\u011fu zaman de\u011fi\u015fmek de\u011fil, hakl\u0131 \u00e7\u0131kmak ister. Beynin derinlerinde \u00e7al\u0131\u015fan bir sistem var. Retik\u00fcler Aktivasyon Sistemi. K\u0131saca RAS deniyor. Hayat\u0131n i\u00e7indeki milyonlarca ayr\u0131nt\u0131n\u0131n hangisini fark edece\u011fimize o karar veriyor. Bir \u00e7e\u015fit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":286197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-286193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-yazarlar","tag-manset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286198,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286193\/revisions\/286198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}