Saturday, June 7th, 2025
This video gives you a sense of my personal worldview, which would be subconsciously impacting my decisions as a parent and an individual — except (!!) for the fact that I've explored my inner proclivities, tendencies and inclinations enough to be very self-aware.
As I am encouraging all of the parents who are watching my special summer series, “knowing myself) helps me recognize when my evaluation of a situation could be slanted, skewed or impacted by internal bias.
Is this bad? Not necessarily…
People like to talk about confirmation bias. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot. OK, it's two words (😂), but you get the idea!
When people casually use this term, they tend to stop thinking about what it actually means and they simply sense that there's a negative element to the concept. Then, they hear the concept applied to a topic area or another person, such as in the form of character assassination or a persuasive argument, and — without really taking the time to drill down and think about it in detail — then they jump to an emotionally judgmental assessment of the situation.
The truth is, bias is impossible to avoid. In truth, it is actually a good thing because it reflects life experiences, and that can keep you alive!
“Confirmation bias” can also be the thing that confuses your assessment of a situation or causes you to overly focus on whatever confirms what you already believed to be true, all while causing you to ignore contradictory information.
In this way, we can inhibit our capacity for evaluation.
“Confirmation bias and biases in general,” ought to be explored from a non-emotional and non-judgmental perspective, as tools available to us for the pursuit of clarity.
Once we start weaponizing these concepts, using them to slander other people, and especially using these terms to embarrass/shame individuals OR shut down conversation?
Well, that's a whole ‘nother category of problematic human behavior. Don’t do it!
Confirmation bias and biases themselves are a natural part of human existence. In our lives, they are not senseless and they ARE worth understanding.
For example! I know I have a tendency to lean towards the protective power of the concept of terrain, as in keeping my body as well prepared and healthy as possible, with high levels of good quality nutrients and various elements that improve my bodies capacity for self protection.
But as I point out in the video, I am mindful of this, and therefore I give a special amount of attention to personal experiences where modern allopathic medicine and pharmaceuticals created in a lab CAN provide great benefit!
I am so inherently bound to the concept of balance, that whenever I find myself leaning a particular direction, I have an instinct to go out of my way to explore in the opposite direction! I want to make sure I'm checking myself, and if I cannot prove to myself that something that I believe to be true is true by looking at DATA offered by people who are actually promoting the alternative viewpoint? Then, there's a problem and I need to dig deeper!
The truth, in other words, should be something you can ultimately find in all the different directions you might go researching and digging and seeking knowledge.
If you can only find proof of your truth in one category, where the people there have a bias toward that particular so-called truth — that's a big red flag.
Anyway, enjoy the video!
Remember that every day your immune system is doing a great job and every day of your life where you do not experience the symptoms of being sick (which, for most of us, is the vast majority of our days), that is because our immune systems are quietly, efficiently and beautifully managing those invaders so successfully — we don't even know they were there to begin with.
With love, from South Korea,
March
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