Selective Thinking

We believe what we want to believe.
We distort information to suit our needs.
We remember what we want to remember.

Social psychologists argue that the human mind has the ability to selectively process data to create perfect balance in our individual worlds. We desperately seek mental equilibrium and interpret everything in our environment to accomplish that goal. Maybe that’s why we shy away from objective feedback? We love the compliments, yet treat with disdain any evaluations that tell us that we are wrong, or can improve in specific areas. It has to be someone else’s fault or shortcoming.

We are close to perfect. Our ego tends to get in the way.

A little self-serving? Probably. I don’t know about you, but most of us can justify just about anything to ourselves to create perfect harmony in our lives.

Selective thinking is an art form — and most of us have it down to a science!