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This is casey aa jump off that exhausting amster wheel
and into balance.
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Living with Doctor Marissa from Miss Joy. Doctor Marissa, also
known as the Asian Oprah. Her mission to be a
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on Music, Tea Live, rumble Streaker, Spreaker and more. Why
so many places? Well, I want to maximize my splatter
zone for more hope and happiness because there's so much
bad news out there right now. Headlines guaranteed, well, if
it bleeds, it will lead and it will end up.
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You either say what's wrong with people or are in
fear about the world going to hell in a hand basket.
And we don't want that, and we know that's not true,
the wellness and well being and the reality that is
real in our lives if we choose to focus on
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it is that the plants did not crash into each other.
And no matter what happens, we do have this opportunity
to live, love, love, learn and innovate, create relationships, finances.
We can general rate so many things in our lives,
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and that's what I choose to focus on for the past.
What is it now? Six hundred and ninety two consecutive weeks,
thirteen plus years and three point ninety eight million impressions
as of today. I just check Mondays or my days
to check to see if y'all are still here. You're
still listening, you're still watching, and you're still balancing out
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the bad news with good news. So welcome. It is
Mondy Monday, which means it's Mental Health Matters. Mondays my
very special series that I get to talk about things
that directly affect your health and well being and your
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mental health and encourage you to up that happiness factor.
And that's what we do on Mondays. So glad you're here.
We're going to start as per usual with breakfast. If
you haven't had breakfast yet, good you can have breakfast
with me, which can constitute taking a bite out of
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my gratitude sandwich. And let's see, top of the bun
is things that we're grateful for outside of ourselves, and
then bottom of the bun is things that we're grateful
for inside of ourselves. And that's how we start every
show these past at least three or four years now,
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and so that's what we're going to continue doing because
it's a good life habit. And so let's start with
what am I grateful for. I am grateful that I
am eighty eight percent moved into my new place. As
you can see, I have a grand piano here. Actually
there's a grand piano downstairs. But I am so grateful
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that I have a place. I didn't think I could
get any better of a view of the ocean than
I did that at the last place, but I do
because it's always this and better. And I am grateful
that I am having a birthday party for myself at
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this coming Sunday. It is Leo's season, this particular Leo
is a Leo and five five out of six planets,
so yes, and I am grateful. Although I'm hashtag ageless.
You all know that, so we're not going to count numbers.
And I am grateful that I have friends and family
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and every day is a chance to make a new
friend and drop it old. No, I'm just kidding, have
a new friend, and I actually have a date tonight
that I'm excited about. So first date, it'll be first date.
Number twenty four I've had is twenty four or thirty
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four first dates and two second dates, one third day
one for we're going to see if we can't hit
a record fifth date for this particular gentleman. Well, let's see.
I can't believe I just said that out loud. And
then I'm grateful for this platform for highlighting things. It's
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National breast Feeding Month, and I have a special guest
today that'll be coming on a little later, doctor Mona Aman.
You may remember her from last year with some great
information about breastfeeding. So if you're a new mom, then
you'll want to tune in after the commercial break. So
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what am I grateful for on the bottom of the button.
The reason why I do this part of the gratitude
sandwich is that of us, we're told you're not all that.
Don't toot your own horn, especially if you're Japanese or Chinese.
There's a saying the nail that stands up is hammered down,
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and so you don't want to toot your own horn.
And you know, well meaning parents sometimes more mean than well.
The downside is, you know, if you don't know who
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you are and how good you are, and you don't
tame that critical voice in your head that tells you
that you're not all that, then you're gonna have a
propensity to walk around with antenna on looking for people
who do like you, or trying to manipulate so that
you are liked, literally on social media, buying likes. We
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don't want to do that to know what we're good at.
A lot of us are perfectionists. I'm a recovering perfectionist,
and yeah, I know. You know, if you get ninety
nine compliments and one critical criticism, what do you think
about not the ninety nine but the one. So that's
why we do the bottom of the butt where we
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purposely highlight what you like about yourself, so that when
you go to bed tonight and you're thinking about who
done me wrong or what I didn't get done, and
I'm not you know, they were right. I can't finish anything.
That's bullshit hockey, and why I want you to replace
that with you know what, I like the fact that
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I am adventurous and blood clot or no blood clot
for the future, I cannot take away that I have
had an amazing life, so many chapters, I've gotten to
travel so much. I was reminded yesterday I'm grateful for
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my Gatpe community and all of my sisters there who
reminded me that let's just stay in today. And even
though the er doctor was you know pretty like, you know,
this is your second time with blood clots and you
had a pulmonary embolism, so flying is not a great idea,
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and so I went to worst case scenario. I'm never
gonna fly again, because I did have to cancel my
world tour this year Africa and Ireland and Shanghai and
Taiwan and Hawaii. But that doesn't mean there isn't miracles
that happened. So I'm gonna thank you Lee and Monique
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and Susie for holding that truth and grace, and of
course my big brother Michael Bernard with who who who
has already seen all past that and everything's going to
be okay. So yes, I appreciate that I can practice
what I teach eighty eight percent of the time. And
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also I appreciate my ability to be real and allowed
myself to cry and get support. It's not easy for
me to admit that I need help or that I
am not always in a good place, and I have
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to feel my feelings fully and I did that yesterday.
And I appreciate my ability to be vulnerable. You know,
that's some people go, well, let you know, duh, But
for me, that's you know, I spent a lifetime saying
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I'm okay, right, I don't need any help and I
don't need you as a coping device to the way
that I was treated when I was a kid, and
I have to unlearn that, and so I appreciate my
ability to do that. So that's it for the bottom
of the bun. Thanks for joining me for breakfast this morning,
taking a bite of my gratitude sandwich. I hope you
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continue this good life habit with or without me, every
weekday morning, because life's too short to be feeding your pissoffedness. Instead,
take a bite of my gratitude sandwich and that good
life habit and hashtag discipline will help you not only
get a good night's sleep at night, but sandwich your
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day in the most positive way. Thanks for joining me
for breakfast. Yes it is Monday, all right, and now
it is time for I'm back in California. So I
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have my well topic of the day that says everything
is awesome is conspiracy theory. And some of your going,
what who's willing to tell the truth? Who is telling
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the truth? Isn't a conspiracy theory? Can you handle the truth?
That was a good movie. That's a topic today? Why
are we talking about conspiracy theory? I thought it was
mental health matters, mondays. I accidentally hashtag accidentally not accidentally,
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by the way, when I was writing out the title,
I put mental health madness by accident, so I left
it on there matters Monday on conspiracy. And honestly, folks,
if you had told me ten years ago that like
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people that I thought were you know, smart, bright, h logic,
rational thought, would actually be publicly and believingly uh speaking
about conspiracy theories. That the Holocaust never happened, that the uh,
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you know, we didn't really go to the moon, that
Stevie Wonders really not blind. I mean I would have
I would have bet you money and lost, because I
cannot believe the extent uh that we have as a
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human race, especially as Americans, especially with all the access
to knowledge and and the like. The fact that journalists,
you know, real news, fake news, all of that crazy
making would be normal, normalized, normalized madness, I think is
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what Michael called it yesterday when he spoke that is
unbelievable to me. It is still sort of like, what
have you heard the latest conspiracy theory? I don't want
to know because it just makes me shake my head
and go, what is going on? But the reason why
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we're talking about it is because whether we believe it
or not, it's happening, and whether we believe it or not,
we're feeling the effects of some human dynamics that unless
you took psychology or took a class from me, I
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have a PhD in organizational psychology, and that studies human
dynamics in organizations or at work or at home. Anything
that happens to us that is illogical and irrational, and
certainly conspiracy theory is such, and it is contributing to
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our mental health or lack of mental health, because one
it is creating divisiveness and conflict and ghosting and dropping people,
and family disputes and friendship disputes and work disputes. So
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this whole area, I thought, I would, you know, put
the moose on the table, which is my Canadian version
of talking about the elephant in the room. Uh, this
particular topic as an organizational psychologist, and share with you
some of the things that I learned in my studies
about human dynamics at work, and maybe that'll help you
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understand or at least appreciate your own biases and your
own thoughts, feelings and actions that may or may not
be contributing to good mental health or useful mental health
or not. So that's the topic of the day, all right,
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So first half of the show, you know, I talk
about what is the reality around this? And for those
of you who did are on my social I played
a little clip I wonder if we can get that up.
I didn't prepare this particularly, but I did a oh oh,
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it's not logged in, but go to Doc Balance or
doctor Marris everywhere else and just I did an expert
commentary on this show called Hunting the Lost Symbol, and
it was a show looking at at the symbols in
Honey the see if I can pull that up hunting
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the lust symbol. I have great memory, but my recall sucks.
So it's the documentary and Dan Brown's book. It took
a look at all the things that were in there,
what was real and what was not. And I got
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to talk about conspiracy theory and how some people are
more prone to believe conspiracy and how that even happens.
And at that point when I spoke about it, it
was not a norm. It's not like today where you
have the gosh I forgot there. It's not maga, it's
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the other one. Boy. This is how much I don't
like to follow it or talk about it is I
Q noon, that's it. But it's truly, truly, truly fascinating.
Our minds are what we can do and how we
get to the point of believing something that's not true.
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Is more is more common and more susceptible than we think.
All right, so what are some of the things that
contribute towards the not great mental health of individuals? Right now?
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So let's do the reality check. I could grow up
with no with not a very strong muscle, for uh,
what answering the question, uh, what do I think? What
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do I know? What do I believe? Who am I?
What do I want? And certainly seven out of ten
of us who've had childhood trauma, that whole question line
is pretty much not uh prevalent, because we are taught
to do as do as I say, I'll give you
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something to cry about, or uh, if you love me,
you would, and so we are used to and we
have a habit of looking to others for the truth.
To find the truth ourselves is not a natural habit.
It's been covered up by this unnatural habit lots of times,
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born out of trauma, to look to others for the answer.
Our whole education system, by the way, is you know
what's the right answer, and your teachers provide you with
the right answer, and if you disagree with the teacher,
you're punished, okay. So and then if your parents are
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believing a certain thing, and you go to a church
that believes a certain thing, and you go to a
school that believes a certain thing, you your truth is
what you hear and what you see around you, what
is modeled for you around you, and that is your truth.
And if you dare disagree or buck the system. You
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are labeled as the black sheep, or you're labeled a
as in my case, we'll pray for you. You know
that you find your way back, your your your ostracize.
You're put out there as someone who uh you know
has lost their way, all right, so that that was
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the reality or the before or you know what it
was to think something different right than uh what is
uh the common thought? And if you are not strong
enough in your own individual uh power of choice, you
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know you can think differently. You know you can examine
things objectively. You know you can trust your gut. You
know that you can uh uh you know, take things
under advisement. You can you can go fact check things.
Then you will be led, you know, by the nose
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or that Michael call media the weapon of mass distraction.
You will believe what is put in front of you,
and if that is a conspiracy theory, you will buy
a hook line and sinker because you don't have the
habit or the muscle to question what is being put
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in front of you. And I'm gonna give you the
best example possible. When someone messages you with something, do
you immediately turn around you read it and go, and
then I have to help some I have to let
people know because this is horrible, and I have to
warn them and turn around and message everybody that you
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know and love with this particular whatever it is, right,
the people are robbing people at gas stations or you know,
don't uh don't listen to this person, or don't click
on this, or don't don't do this and don't do that,
and uh, you know there's a you know, people trying
to you know, aliens here, whatever it is, and you
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immediately share it, post it, forward it without checking it.
You are more prone to conspiracy theory because you have
not exercised your muscle to at least fact check it,
at least look at where this news is coming from. Now,
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some of you will say, yeah, but doctor Marissa, you
know there's no such thing as unbiased news, and there's
no you know, it's got to be true because such
and such said it right. So well, I'm so delighted
to tell you that I actually I'm going to get
the interview the man behind this chart that I've been
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using for probably like seven or eight years, when the well,
whenever the q noon idea came up in mainstream I said, okay,
I got to do something about straightening the uh the
like the belief the bs, the belief system that whatever
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you hear is true. So you know, there's no news
that is one hundred percent not biased. Let's just put
that moves on the table. However, there are definite leanings,
So unbiased media is an oxymoron. That's something I've I
used to say. I actually bring it back. So know
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that if you are hearing something or getting a post
from or whatever it is, from any of these stations,
it's going to be far left, all right. They are
going to promote what they believe as they should because
that's what they do. That's their job. And if you
go to the right, far right, you know you're going
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to get things based on fear of people doing bad
things to you. On the other side, if I go
far left, it'll be all the bad things that are
happening people who need help. Okay, so that's far left.
I know I'm super generalizing it, but I'm trying to
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make the point of please know when you're getting things
forwarded to you, or you're watching you're seeing a post
in social you're watching news. If you're not watching the
middle here, it's going to be biased. They're going to
put in front of you things that promote what that
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producer who is paid to represent either the far left
or the far right and not the center. So I
get my news here when I if I actually want
to start my day with the yous, this is where
I go. All right, So this is probably not updated,
but I wanted to bring it up to you because
it is so amazing that I get to actually interview
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the guy behind that. So if you do not have
that muscle that checks okay, you will you're more prone
to conspiracy theory. That's one if you so Actually Number
one was if you don't have a strong sense of
self and understand what you no believe think and know
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what your BS is, your belief systems are, you're more
likely to be a conspiracy theorist. Second, if you don't
fact check and look at where the news is coming from,
you'll also be more susceptible to conspiracy theory. The third
is who do you hang around with? And we just
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did this show I think it was on Doctors in
the House with Doctor Tiffany about the five people you
hang around right the Jim Ron saying and I bring
this up because it's very interesting. I loved my field
when I was learning it, and then I got to
teach it at Boston University and UCLA in the NBA School.
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Which is a phenomena like groupthink and pigmillion effect. Some
of you may be familiar, but if you've never taken psychology,
you may not. And let me take a quick I'm
going to be one with my coffee. M So, group
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think is when the power of and the momentum of
a group that is believing a certain way, and the
stronger the belief, the less likely you're going to hear
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or allow, or be aware of any data that is
contrary or disagrees or goes against what you believe. Now,
Bay of Pigs is a great example of that. Even
Pearl Harbor is a great example of that. I'm sure
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if you have a very strong group of friends who
present a certain idea that you you don't know why
you believe it, but you believe it, and you only
see things that reinforce that belief, you are in groupthink,
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all right. It happens all the time, whether you believe
it or not. It's just one of those phenomena that
happens with human beings of you know that expression, He's
like a dog with a bone, like when you have
that idea and you can't let that idea go and
that is it, and nothing is put in front can
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distract you from that. That is an individual propensity towards
Pygmalion effect. Pygmalion effect is the opposite of I'll see
it when I believe it, or sorry, i'll believe it
when I see it. I'll believe it when I see it,
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which is the common saying, Right, I need proof. Show me,
you know, can you handle the truth, What is the truth,
and then I'll believe it. Show me evidence of what
you're saying, and then I'll believe it. Right, I'll believe
it when I see it. If I don't see it,
I don't believe it. Pygmalion effect is kind of like
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the cousin and individual level of groupthink is I will
see it as I believe it, and it's so powerful.
The best study I know of this is when people
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get cut off on the freeway. All right, And some
of you may accuse me of stereotyping, this was an
actual study, so, but it illustrates what I'm talking about
in Pygmalion effect, and what you believe affects what you see.
So if you get cut off on the freeway at
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the exact same time, and you hold a belief system,
let's say of Asians driving, since I'm a nation but
I'm a good driver. Now if Africa, an American gentleman
and an Asian American woman cut you off at the
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same time, because whatever belief system you hold, and you
know which one most people hold about drivers, you see
what you believe and you miss what you don't. So
you will literally get cut off at exactly the same time,
but you will only see that what you believe and
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you know which one it is. I'm not gonna say
it out loud. Actually I had someone say to me,
in all seriousness, that the reason why Asians can't drive,
And I still can't believe someone actually said to this,
said this to me, but it's a great example of
Pygmalion effect. She said, Oh, the reason that's true is
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because you have smaller eyes and so you can't see
out of the corner of your eyes. I'm still stunned
by that. But she's a great example of Pygmalion effects.
She she believes she sees it and believes it, and
there's no like moving her from that. So Pygmalion effect
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is certainly creating a lot of divisiveness in our country
now because it's removes our ability to agree to disagree.
Because now, if whatever you're believing, you're wrong, right, if
it's not what I see and I see in plain
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sight what it is, it's wrong. So there you go.
That is one of the two group think and Pygmalion
effect psychological phenomena, and it happens whether you believe it
or not. It's also tied to the law of attraction.
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What you see grows bigger. So this phenomena is making
our ability to have good relationships with people, especially that
we love. If we are one is thinking this way
and one is thinking that way and they don't see
any data to support the other because they can't, then
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we're gonna have conflict. That you see now, So the
ability to be able to I had the bridging the
gap people here, the ability to see the other side,
to see that it is not a conspiracy, to see
that everyone believes or acts and thinks in a way
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that is consistent with their strong bs belief system. If
we can own that, then we can begin the dialogue
to move more towards that central You can still hold
your strong belief, but you can understand that the other
person isn't stupid or a conspiracy theorist because they're just
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acting out the natural psychological phenomena of Pygmalion effect. I
will see it when I believe it, right, I see
as I believe instead of I believe when I see okay.
And group think is when you don't allow data that
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might balance out what you're thinking because you just literally
don't see it right. You can only see data that
supports what you believe. Does that make sense? All right?
Those are two important You just had a psychology lesson
in mental health matters about the madness. I hope you
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uh learned a little bit from that. We're gonna take
a quick break now and hear from the sponsor of
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I'm so happy that I got to interview doctor Mona Amin.
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So the findings were eye opening to me both as
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We heard from hundreds of women about how personal and
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and eighty seven percent continued breastfeeding at twelve months, which
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It's especially now, you know, the whole balancing equity and
certainly supporting colorful women, especially when they want to breastfeed.
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or resources to this, monk Chicken.
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Yeah, so remember, in honor of National Breastfeeding Awareness Month,
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It's so important to.
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Ask for help and get the support when you need it.
I always recommend visiting munchkin dot com to learn more
about their tools like the Flow, Nippleshield Plus and other
helpful breastfeeding resources there as well.
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Yeah, it's a great website. I just popped it up
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good now.
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So you heard it here on take my advice. I'm
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A really important tool kit and support and information.
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So glad that you're doing this, doctor Mona. And one
more time, where.
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Do they go for access for more resources on breastfeeding.
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Well, thank you for having us on to talk about
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the best place to go.
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Thank you and happy birthday month.
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Oh thank you so much.
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This morning, So we've been talking about mental health madness.
Normally it's Mental Health Matters Mondays, but you know, the
(45:12):
topic is conspiracy theory, and so I accidentally hashtag not
accidentally put it. I was typing mental health matters and
it went madness because of that. So we before the
break we talked about the reality of conspiracy theories. Now,
(45:34):
really one of the biggest reasons why we're in so
much conflict is the BS. The belief systems are so
diametrically opposed, are so going against what we used to
think as common sense. Common sense is uncommon. Rational thought
is irrational, and it is supporting divisiveness. It's a leading
(45:56):
to a lot more conflict than we used to have.
We use to be able to agree to disagree. We
used to be able to walk in other people's moccasins
and shoes to sort of understand where they're coming from.
We used to fact check. We used to have real
journalists who didn't just base their stories on the producer
(46:19):
or the company line, so to speak. And that's led
to a country now that is very divided and relationships
that are contributing to not good mental health and certainly
unhappiness not happiness. So that's why we're talking about it,
and just to recap those of you who are not
(46:45):
familiar with psychology and especially organizational psychology, that is my field.
And the things that we introduce before the break are
one group think, which I think a lot of you
you know about. That's the inability for groups that believe
a certain way to allow any data that doesn't support it.
(47:08):
And then Pygmalion effect, which changes I'll believe it when
I see it to I will see it as I
believe it. So if you missed the data on that
or the detail on that, go rewind. You can access
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All right, back to conspiracy, how do we continue having
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or restore our relationships that have been hurt or destroyed
by conspiracy theory? So this is I don't even know
(49:24):
if it's possible to be perfectly honest because our BS,
our belief systems are so strong sometimes that it is
almost impossible to change them. And there's a lot of
idioms that support this. You can't teach an old dog
(49:47):
a new trick. You basically, as a psychologist, I used
to joke, I've discovered that really the bottom line is
you cannot change people, Okay, and that is not true.
So the first BS that I would would it would
(50:09):
recommend in calling the BS is that people, including yourself,
cannot change. I am what I am. I believe what
I believe. I don't change my mind. It's a sign
of weakness. I am my BS, I am my belief system.
If i'm if I don't have a strong belief system,
(50:32):
then I'm a whimp or I'm a wishy washy, and
uh i will be I'll fail the strong opinion test.
And everybody has a right to my opinion. And therefore, uh,
this is the way it is. And the benefits of
that is you may be you might have a reputation
(50:52):
of being strong minded and getting things done, and uh
that's a good thing in our culture. Like you know,
just you are your belief system, and leaders are made
out of people who are not very changeable, and that
(51:13):
is that is bus So if you know you're one
of those, if you think everybody is right to your opinion,
if you're the one who wants to share the first
news about anything and shock people and and be the
be the one in the know, and this is the
way it is. And if you don't think this way,
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you're stupid. And the thing that's wrong with our country
is blank blank blank and uh and yeah. So we
have a lot of those on the screen these days.
So if you are either one of them or influenced
by one of them, I would have you take a breath,
(51:55):
take a breath in through the nose, Emi Lisa, and
ask yourself, is it really true? For me? I'm not
gonna say is it true that blanket? It's either true
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or false, in black or white, good or bad? What
category does it go in? That's Newtonian thinking, and Newtonian
thinking leads to war, it leads to strife, it leads
to unhappiness. So if is there a balance, is there
a way to believe something and not throw us into
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the bushes, not throw us into the hole of unhappiness. Yes,
is it possible that your truth can be true and
at the same time someone else's truth can be true? True?
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This is a tool that I use. Let's see if
I can pull up let's see something from Let's see
if I pulled anything in here recently that we can use,
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uh for to show this. Let's see open happiness. So
I wonderful, it's my leadership. Uh, maybe I can pull
this up real quickly. There's I didn't think of doing
(53:43):
that until now, but there's a picture that I use.
Maybe I'll do it on my social today. That is,
there's an old woman and a young woman. Those of
you who've seen, Oh, I know I can do this.
I know how I can do this. It's probably online.
Old woman, young woman, and it's a graphic that I
(54:08):
use when I teach to show you. There we go perfect.
I'm so grateful that I have the ability to do this,
and I'm going to share this. So this this particular graphic,
(54:30):
those of you who took psychology will remember this. I'm
gonna put this on full screen just so you can
see it. So focus on this right here. What do
you see an old woman or a young woman and
the joke is a lot of people see the old woman,
and I'll say to the executive, you know, that's what
you want to see. But seriously, if you look, you
(54:54):
can actually see there's two women here. One is a
young woman and she has her eye elash here, she
has her nose here, and the mouth is at the bottom. Sorry,
the mouth is you can't see the mouth. This is
a choker on her neck. That is a young woman.
She's got a little feather up here. And those of
(55:15):
you who are listening on the radio, we'll have to
watch this later on my YouTube TV channel. But there's
a young woman that you see. But at the same time,
there's an old woman and this is her eye in
the middle instead of over here, and she's got a
big nose. And then the choker becomes a mouth. And
if you are able to see both, you already have
(55:36):
the ability to see more than one reality. And that
is the skill, folks, to get to a place where
we can begin to help our own mental health by
having relationships with people who don't agree with us. This
(55:59):
is how we do it. We acknowledge that some bs
belief system that they are so strongly even if you
think it's a conspiracy theory that they have been practicing
that BS. And therefore to say you're stupid and wrong
because you believe that is not helping. But to say,
(56:19):
you know, I can understand how you got there because
I heard on doctor Rissu's show this morning that there
are human dynamics at work that further the divide if
we're not aware of them. And you don't accuse that,
oh you're in Pygmalion effect or oh you're in group thing.
But that's not the point of this, folks, is not
(56:40):
to judge and label, but it's to understand that people
come to the conclusions and the bs and the belief
systems and even the conspiracies because we're human and we
have these funky tendencies to believe as we believe. And
if we can acknowledge that, then we're less likely to
(57:03):
judge people who think differently than us as stupid or
wrong or crazy, even though we think it. But it
is possible. Therefore, it is possible that we also are
and that we also change our minds. That's my final word.
(57:24):
Hopefully you've enjoyed this interesting take on conspiracy theory. It
is related to mental health matters because I totally want
us to be happy eighty eight percent of the time,
and we cannot do so if we're constantly arguing or
ghosting or angry at what we hear and see on
(57:47):
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bad news out there right now. Headlines guaranteed, well, if
it bleeds, it will lead and it will end up.
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You either say what's wrong with people or are in
fear about the world going to hell in a hand basket.
And we don't want that, and we know that's not true,
the wellness and well being and the reality that is
real in our lives if we choose to focus on
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it is that the plants did not crash into each other.
And no matter what happens, we do have this opportunity
to live, love, love, learn and innovate, create relationships, finances.
We can general rate so many things in our lives,
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What is it now? Six hundred and ninety two consecutive weeks,
thirteen plus years and three point ninety eight million impressions
as of today. I just check Mondays or my days
to check to see if y'all are still here. You're
still listening, you're still watching, and you're still balancing out
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the bad news with good news. So welcome. It is
Mondy Monday, which means it's Mental Health Matters. Mondays my
very special series that I get to talk about things
that directly affect your health and well being and your
(02:47):
mental health and encourage you to up that happiness factor.
And that's what we do on Mondays. So glad you're here.
We're going to start as per usual with breakfast. If
you haven't had breakfast yet, good you can have breakfast
with me, which can constitute taking a bite out of
(03:09):
my gratitude sandwich. And let's see, top of the bun
is things that we're grateful for outside of ourselves, and
then bottom of the bun is things that we're grateful
for inside of ourselves. And that's how we start every
show these past at least three or four years now,
(03:34):
and so that's what we're going to continue doing because
it's a good life habit. And so let's start with
what am I grateful for. I am grateful that I
am eighty eight percent moved into my new place. As
you can see, I have a grand piano here. Actually
there's a grand piano downstairs. But I am so grateful
(03:58):
that I have a place. I didn't think I could
get any better of a view of the ocean than
I did that at the last place, but I do
because it's always this and better. And I am grateful
that I am having a birthday party for myself at
(04:18):
this coming Sunday. It is Leo's season, this particular Leo
is a Leo and five five out of six planets,
so yes, and I am grateful. Although I'm hashtag ageless.
You all know that, so we're not going to count numbers.
And I am grateful that I have friends and family
(04:44):
and every day is a chance to make a new
friend and drop it old. No, I'm just kidding, have
a new friend, and I actually have a date tonight
that I'm excited about. So first date, it'll be first date.
Number twenty four I've had is twenty four or thirty
(05:07):
four first dates and two second dates, one third day
one for we're going to see if we can't hit
a record fifth date for this particular gentleman. Well, let's see.
I can't believe I just said that out loud. And
then I'm grateful for this platform for highlighting things. It's
(05:29):
National breast Feeding Month, and I have a special guest
today that'll be coming on a little later, doctor Mona Aman.
You may remember her from last year with some great
information about breastfeeding. So if you're a new mom, then
you'll want to tune in after the commercial break. So
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what am I grateful for on the bottom of the button.
The reason why I do this part of the gratitude
sandwich is that of us, we're told you're not all that.
Don't toot your own horn, especially if you're Japanese or Chinese.
There's a saying the nail that stands up is hammered down,
(06:11):
and so you don't want to toot your own horn.
And you know, well meaning parents sometimes more mean than well.
The downside is, you know, if you don't know who
(06:32):
you are and how good you are, and you don't
tame that critical voice in your head that tells you
that you're not all that, then you're gonna have a
propensity to walk around with antenna on looking for people
who do like you, or trying to manipulate so that
you are liked, literally on social media, buying likes. We
(06:58):
don't want to do that to know what we're good at.
A lot of us are perfectionists. I'm a recovering perfectionist,
and yeah, I know. You know, if you get ninety
nine compliments and one critical criticism, what do you think
about not the ninety nine but the one. So that's
why we do the bottom of the butt where we
(07:21):
purposely highlight what you like about yourself, so that when
you go to bed tonight and you're thinking about who
done me wrong or what I didn't get done, and
I'm not you know, they were right. I can't finish anything.
That's bullshit hockey, and why I want you to replace
that with you know what, I like the fact that
(07:47):
I am adventurous and blood clot or no blood clot
for the future, I cannot take away that I have
had an amazing life, so many chapters, I've gotten to
travel so much. I was reminded yesterday I'm grateful for
(08:08):
my Gatpe community and all of my sisters there who
reminded me that let's just stay in today. And even
though the er doctor was you know pretty like, you know,
this is your second time with blood clots and you
had a pulmonary embolism, so flying is not a great idea,
(08:30):
and so I went to worst case scenario. I'm never
gonna fly again, because I did have to cancel my
world tour this year Africa and Ireland and Shanghai and
Taiwan and Hawaii. But that doesn't mean there isn't miracles
that happened. So I'm gonna thank you Lee and Monique
(08:52):
and Susie for holding that truth and grace, and of
course my big brother Michael Bernard with who who who
has already seen all past that and everything's going to
be okay. So yes, I appreciate that I can practice
what I teach eighty eight percent of the time. And
(09:15):
also I appreciate my ability to be real and allowed
myself to cry and get support. It's not easy for
me to admit that I need help or that I
am not always in a good place, and I have
(09:35):
to feel my feelings fully and I did that yesterday.
And I appreciate my ability to be vulnerable. You know,
that's some people go, well, let you know, duh, But
for me, that's you know, I spent a lifetime saying
(09:56):
I'm okay, right, I don't need any help and I
don't need you as a coping device to the way
that I was treated when I was a kid, and
I have to unlearn that, and so I appreciate my
ability to do that. So that's it for the bottom
of the bun. Thanks for joining me for breakfast this morning,
taking a bite of my gratitude sandwich. I hope you
(10:18):
continue this good life habit with or without me, every
weekday morning, because life's too short to be feeding your pissoffedness. Instead,
take a bite of my gratitude sandwich and that good
life habit and hashtag discipline will help you not only
get a good night's sleep at night, but sandwich your
(10:39):
day in the most positive way. Thanks for joining me
for breakfast. Yes it is Monday, all right, and now
it is time for I'm back in California. So I
(10:59):
have my well topic of the day that says everything
is awesome is conspiracy theory. And some of your going,
what who's willing to tell the truth? Who is telling
(11:19):
the truth? Isn't a conspiracy theory? Can you handle the truth?
That was a good movie. That's a topic today? Why
are we talking about conspiracy theory? I thought it was
mental health matters, mondays. I accidentally hashtag accidentally not accidentally,
(11:40):
by the way, when I was writing out the title,
I put mental health madness by accident, so I left
it on there matters Monday on conspiracy. And honestly, folks,
if you had told me ten years ago that like
(12:00):
people that I thought were you know, smart, bright, h logic,
rational thought, would actually be publicly and believingly uh speaking
about conspiracy theories. That the Holocaust never happened, that the uh,
(12:27):
you know, we didn't really go to the moon, that
Stevie Wonders really not blind. I mean I would have
I would have bet you money and lost, because I
cannot believe the extent uh that we have as a
(12:49):
human race, especially as Americans, especially with all the access
to knowledge and and the like. The fact that journalists,
you know, real news, fake news, all of that crazy
making would be normal, normalized, normalized madness, I think is
(13:17):
what Michael called it yesterday when he spoke that is
unbelievable to me. It is still sort of like, what
have you heard the latest conspiracy theory? I don't want
to know because it just makes me shake my head
and go, what is going on? But the reason why
(13:40):
we're talking about it is because whether we believe it
or not, it's happening, and whether we believe it or not,
we're feeling the effects of some human dynamics that unless
you took psychology or took a class from me, I
(14:02):
have a PhD in organizational psychology, and that studies human
dynamics in organizations or at work or at home. Anything
that happens to us that is illogical and irrational, and
certainly conspiracy theory is such, and it is contributing to
(14:25):
our mental health or lack of mental health, because one
it is creating divisiveness and conflict and ghosting and dropping people,
and family disputes and friendship disputes and work disputes. So
(14:50):
this whole area, I thought, I would, you know, put
the moose on the table, which is my Canadian version
of talking about the elephant in the room. Uh, this
particular topic as an organizational psychologist, and share with you
some of the things that I learned in my studies
about human dynamics at work, and maybe that'll help you
(15:13):
understand or at least appreciate your own biases and your
own thoughts, feelings and actions that may or may not
be contributing to good mental health or useful mental health
or not. So that's the topic of the day, all right,
(15:34):
So first half of the show, you know, I talk
about what is the reality around this? And for those
of you who did are on my social I played
a little clip I wonder if we can get that up.
I didn't prepare this particularly, but I did a oh oh,
(16:01):
it's not logged in, but go to Doc Balance or
doctor Marris everywhere else and just I did an expert
commentary on this show called Hunting the Lost Symbol, and
it was a show looking at at the symbols in
Honey the see if I can pull that up hunting
(16:29):
the lust symbol. I have great memory, but my recall sucks.
So it's the documentary and Dan Brown's book. It took
a look at all the things that were in there,
what was real and what was not. And I got
(16:52):
to talk about conspiracy theory and how some people are
more prone to believe conspiracy and how that even happens.
And at that point when I spoke about it, it
was not a norm. It's not like today where you
have the gosh I forgot there. It's not maga, it's
(17:17):
the other one. Boy. This is how much I don't
like to follow it or talk about it is I
Q noon, that's it. But it's truly, truly, truly fascinating.
Our minds are what we can do and how we
get to the point of believing something that's not true.
(17:41):
Is more is more common and more susceptible than we think.
All right, so what are some of the things that
contribute towards the not great mental health of individuals? Right now?
(18:03):
So let's do the reality check. I could grow up
with no with not a very strong muscle, for uh,
what answering the question, uh, what do I think? What
(18:24):
do I know? What do I believe? Who am I?
What do I want? And certainly seven out of ten
of us who've had childhood trauma, that whole question line
is pretty much not uh prevalent, because we are taught
to do as do as I say, I'll give you
(18:49):
something to cry about, or uh, if you love me,
you would, and so we are used to and we
have a habit of looking to others for the truth.
To find the truth ourselves is not a natural habit.
It's been covered up by this unnatural habit lots of times,
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born out of trauma, to look to others for the answer.
Our whole education system, by the way, is you know
what's the right answer, and your teachers provide you with
the right answer, and if you disagree with the teacher,
you're punished, okay. So and then if your parents are
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believing a certain thing, and you go to a church
that believes a certain thing, and you go to a
school that believes a certain thing, you your truth is
what you hear and what you see around you, what
is modeled for you around you, and that is your truth.
And if you dare disagree or buck the system. You
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are labeled as the black sheep, or you're labeled a
as in my case, we'll pray for you. You know
that you find your way back, your your your ostracize.
You're put out there as someone who uh you know
has lost their way, all right, so that that was
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the reality or the before or you know what it
was to think something different right than uh what is
uh the common thought? And if you are not strong
enough in your own individual uh power of choice, you
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know you can think differently. You know you can examine
things objectively. You know you can trust your gut. You
know that you can uh uh you know, take things
under advisement. You can you can go fact check things.
Then you will be led, you know, by the nose
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or that Michael call media the weapon of mass distraction.
You will believe what is put in front of you,
and if that is a conspiracy theory, you will buy
a hook line and sinker because you don't have the
habit or the muscle to question what is being put
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in front of you. And I'm gonna give you the
best example possible. When someone messages you with something, do
you immediately turn around you read it and go, and
then I have to help some I have to let
people know because this is horrible, and I have to
warn them and turn around and message everybody that you
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know and love with this particular whatever it is, right,
the people are robbing people at gas stations or you know,
don't uh don't listen to this person, or don't click
on this, or don't don't do this and don't do that,
and uh, you know there's a you know, people trying
to you know, aliens here, whatever it is, and you
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immediately share it, post it, forward it without checking it.
You are more prone to conspiracy theory because you have
not exercised your muscle to at least fact check it,
at least look at where this news is coming from. Now,
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some of you will say, yeah, but doctor Marissa, you
know there's no such thing as unbiased news, and there's
no you know, it's got to be true because such
and such said it right. So well, I'm so delighted
to tell you that I actually I'm going to get
the interview the man behind this chart that I've been
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using for probably like seven or eight years, when the well,
whenever the q noon idea came up in mainstream I said, okay,
I got to do something about straightening the uh the
like the belief the bs, the belief system that whatever
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you hear is true. So you know, there's no news
that is one hundred percent not biased. Let's just put
that moves on the table. However, there are definite leanings,
So unbiased media is an oxymoron. That's something I've I
used to say. I actually bring it back. So know
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that if you are hearing something or getting a post
from or whatever it is, from any of these stations,
it's going to be far left, all right. They are
going to promote what they believe as they should because
that's what they do. That's their job. And if you
go to the right, far right, you know you're going
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to get things based on fear of people doing bad
things to you. On the other side, if I go
far left, it'll be all the bad things that are
happening people who need help. Okay, so that's far left.
I know I'm super generalizing it, but I'm trying to
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make the point of please know when you're getting things
forwarded to you, or you're watching you're seeing a post
in social you're watching news. If you're not watching the
middle here, it's going to be biased. They're going to
put in front of you things that promote what that
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producer who is paid to represent either the far left
or the far right and not the center. So I
get my news here when I if I actually want
to start my day with the yous, this is where
I go. All right, So this is probably not updated,
but I wanted to bring it up to you because
it is so amazing that I get to actually interview
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the guy behind that. So if you do not have
that muscle that checks okay, you will you're more prone
to conspiracy theory. That's one if you so Actually Number
one was if you don't have a strong sense of
self and understand what you no believe think and know
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what your BS is, your belief systems are, you're more
likely to be a conspiracy theorist. Second, if you don't
fact check and look at where the news is coming from,
you'll also be more susceptible to conspiracy theory. The third
is who do you hang around with? And we just
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did this show I think it was on Doctors in
the House with Doctor Tiffany about the five people you
hang around right the Jim Ron saying and I bring
this up because it's very interesting. I loved my field
when I was learning it, and then I got to
teach it at Boston University and UCLA in the NBA School.
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Which is a phenomena like groupthink and pigmillion effect. Some
of you may be familiar, but if you've never taken psychology,
you may not. And let me take a quick I'm
going to be one with my coffee. M So, group
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think is when the power of and the momentum of
a group that is believing a certain way, and the
stronger the belief, the less likely you're going to hear
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or allow, or be aware of any data that is
contrary or disagrees or goes against what you believe. Now,
Bay of Pigs is a great example of that. Even
Pearl Harbor is a great example of that. I'm sure
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if you have a very strong group of friends who
present a certain idea that you you don't know why
you believe it, but you believe it, and you only
see things that reinforce that belief, you are in groupthink,
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all right. It happens all the time, whether you believe
it or not. It's just one of those phenomena that
happens with human beings of you know that expression, He's
like a dog with a bone, like when you have
that idea and you can't let that idea go and
that is it, and nothing is put in front can
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distract you from that. That is an individual propensity towards
Pygmalion effect. Pygmalion effect is the opposite of I'll see
it when I believe it, or sorry, i'll believe it
when I see it. I'll believe it when I see it,
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which is the common saying, Right, I need proof. Show me,
you know, can you handle the truth, What is the truth,
and then I'll believe it. Show me evidence of what
you're saying, and then I'll believe it. Right, I'll believe
it when I see it. If I don't see it,
I don't believe it. Pygmalion effect is kind of like
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the cousin and individual level of groupthink is I will
see it as I believe it, and it's so powerful.
The best study I know of this is when people
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get cut off on the freeway. All right, And some
of you may accuse me of stereotyping, this was an
actual study, so, but it illustrates what I'm talking about
in Pygmalion effect, and what you believe affects what you see.
So if you get cut off on the freeway at
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the exact same time, and you hold a belief system,
let's say of Asians driving, since I'm a nation but
I'm a good driver. Now if Africa, an American gentleman
and an Asian American woman cut you off at the
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same time, because whatever belief system you hold, and you
know which one most people hold about drivers, you see
what you believe and you miss what you don't. So
you will literally get cut off at exactly the same time,
but you will only see that what you believe and
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you know which one it is. I'm not gonna say
it out loud. Actually I had someone say to me,
in all seriousness, that the reason why Asians can't drive,
And I still can't believe someone actually said to this,
said this to me, but it's a great example of
Pygmalion effect. She said, Oh, the reason that's true is
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because you have smaller eyes and so you can't see
out of the corner of your eyes. I'm still stunned
by that. But she's a great example of Pygmalion effects.
She she believes she sees it and believes it, and
there's no like moving her from that. So Pygmalion effect
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is certainly creating a lot of divisiveness in our country
now because it's removes our ability to agree to disagree.
Because now, if whatever you're believing, you're wrong, right, if
it's not what I see and I see in plain
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sight what it is, it's wrong. So there you go.
That is one of the two group think and Pygmalion
effect psychological phenomena, and it happens whether you believe it
or not. It's also tied to the law of attraction.
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What you see grows bigger. So this phenomena is making
our ability to have good relationships with people, especially that
we love. If we are one is thinking this way
and one is thinking that way and they don't see
any data to support the other because they can't, then
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we're gonna have conflict. That you see now, So the
ability to be able to I had the bridging the
gap people here, the ability to see the other side,
to see that it is not a conspiracy, to see
that everyone believes or acts and thinks in a way
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that is consistent with their strong bs belief system. If
we can own that, then we can begin the dialogue
to move more towards that central You can still hold
your strong belief, but you can understand that the other
person isn't stupid or a conspiracy theorist because they're just
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acting out the natural psychological phenomena of Pygmalion effect. I
will see it when I believe it, right, I see
as I believe instead of I believe when I see okay.
And group think is when you don't allow data that
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might balance out what you're thinking because you just literally
don't see it right. You can only see data that
supports what you believe. Does that make sense? All right?
Those are two important You just had a psychology lesson
in mental health matters about the madness. I hope you
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uh learned a little bit from that. We're gonna take
a quick break now and hear from the sponsor of
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This morning, So we've been talking about mental health madness.
Normally it's Mental Health Matters Mondays, but you know, the
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topic is conspiracy theory, and so I accidentally hashtag not
accidentally put it. I was typing mental health matters and
it went madness because of that. So we before the
break we talked about the reality of conspiracy theories. Now,
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really one of the biggest reasons why we're in so
much conflict is the BS. The belief systems are so
diametrically opposed, are so going against what we used to
think as common sense. Common sense is uncommon. Rational thought
is irrational, and it is supporting divisiveness. It's a leading
(45:56):
to a lot more conflict than we used to have.
We use to be able to agree to disagree. We
used to be able to walk in other people's moccasins
and shoes to sort of understand where they're coming from.
We used to fact check. We used to have real
journalists who didn't just base their stories on the producer
(46:19):
or the company line, so to speak. And that's led
to a country now that is very divided and relationships
that are contributing to not good mental health and certainly
unhappiness not happiness. So that's why we're talking about it,
and just to recap those of you who are not
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familiar with psychology and especially organizational psychology, that is my field.
And the things that we introduce before the break are
one group think, which I think a lot of you
you know about. That's the inability for groups that believe
a certain way to allow any data that doesn't support it.
(47:08):
And then Pygmalion effect, which changes I'll believe it when
I see it to I will see it as I
believe it. So if you missed the data on that
or the detail on that, go rewind. You can access
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All right, back to conspiracy, how do we continue having
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or restore our relationships that have been hurt or destroyed
by conspiracy theory? So this is I don't even know
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if it's possible to be perfectly honest because our BS,
our belief systems are so strong sometimes that it is
almost impossible to change them. And there's a lot of
idioms that support this. You can't teach an old dog
(49:47):
a new trick. You basically, as a psychologist, I used
to joke, I've discovered that really the bottom line is
you cannot change people, Okay, and that is not true.
So the first BS that I would would it would
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recommend in calling the BS is that people, including yourself,
cannot change. I am what I am. I believe what
I believe. I don't change my mind. It's a sign
of weakness. I am my BS, I am my belief system.
If i'm if I don't have a strong belief system,
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then I'm a whimp or I'm a wishy washy, and
uh i will be I'll fail the strong opinion test.
And everybody has a right to my opinion. And therefore, uh,
this is the way it is. And the benefits of
that is you may be you might have a reputation
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of being strong minded and getting things done, and uh
that's a good thing in our culture. Like you know,
just you are your belief system, and leaders are made
out of people who are not very changeable, and that
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is that is bus So if you know you're one
of those, if you think everybody is right to your opinion,
if you're the one who wants to share the first
news about anything and shock people and and be the
be the one in the know, and this is the
way it is. And if you don't think this way,
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you're stupid. And the thing that's wrong with our country
is blank blank blank and uh and yeah. So we
have a lot of those on the screen these days.
So if you are either one of them or influenced
by one of them, I would have you take a breath,
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take a breath in through the nose, Emi Lisa, and
ask yourself, is it really true? For me? I'm not
gonna say is it true that blanket? It's either true
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or false, in black or white, good or bad? What
category does it go in? That's Newtonian thinking, and Newtonian
thinking leads to war, it leads to strife, it leads
to unhappiness. So if is there a balance, is there
a way to believe something and not throw us into
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the bushes, not throw us into the hole of unhappiness. Yes,
is it possible that your truth can be true and
at the same time someone else's truth can be true? True?
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This is a tool that I use. Let's see if
I can pull up let's see something from Let's see
if I pulled anything in here recently that we can use,
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uh for to show this. Let's see open happiness. So
I wonderful, it's my leadership. Uh, maybe I can pull
this up real quickly. There's I didn't think of doing
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that until now, but there's a picture that I use.
Maybe I'll do it on my social today. That is,
there's an old woman and a young woman. Those of
you who've seen, Oh, I know I can do this.
I know how I can do this. It's probably online.
Old woman, young woman, and it's a graphic that I
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use when I teach to show you. There we go perfect.
I'm so grateful that I have the ability to do this,
and I'm going to share this. So this this particular graphic,
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those of you who took psychology will remember this. I'm
gonna put this on full screen just so you can
see it. So focus on this right here. What do
you see an old woman or a young woman and
the joke is a lot of people see the old woman,
and I'll say to the executive, you know, that's what
you want to see. But seriously, if you look, you
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can actually see there's two women here. One is a
young woman and she has her eye elash here, she
has her nose here, and the mouth is at the bottom. Sorry,
the mouth is you can't see the mouth. This is
a choker on her neck. That is a young woman.
She's got a little feather up here. And those of
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you who are listening on the radio, we'll have to
watch this later on my YouTube TV channel. But there's
a young woman that you see. But at the same time,
there's an old woman and this is her eye in
the middle instead of over here, and she's got a
big nose. And then the choker becomes a mouth. And
if you are able to see both, you already have
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the ability to see more than one reality. And that
is the skill, folks, to get to a place where
we can begin to help our own mental health by
having relationships with people who don't agree with us. This
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is how we do it. We acknowledge that some bs
belief system that they are so strongly even if you
think it's a conspiracy theory that they have been practicing
that BS. And therefore to say you're stupid and wrong
because you believe that is not helping. But to say,
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you know, I can understand how you got there because
I heard on doctor Rissu's show this morning that there
are human dynamics at work that further the divide if
we're not aware of them. And you don't accuse that,
oh you're in Pygmalion effect or oh you're in group thing.
But that's not the point of this, folks, is not
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to judge and label, but it's to understand that people
come to the conclusions and the bs and the belief
systems and even the conspiracies because we're human and we
have these funky tendencies to believe as we believe. And
if we can acknowledge that, then we're less likely to
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judge people who think differently than us as stupid or
wrong or crazy, even though we think it. But it
is possible. Therefore, it is possible that we also are
and that we also change our minds. That's my final word.
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Hopefully you've enjoyed this interesting take on conspiracy theory. It
is related to mental health matters because I totally want
us to be happy eighty eight percent of the time,
and we cannot do so if we're constantly arguing or
ghosting or angry at what we hear and see on
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the news. That's it. Thanks for joining me on. Take
my advice. I'm not using a get balanced with utter
risk of the morning show. And you know the drill.
It's all about balance. Peace in peace, out world, peace
through inner piece. Now go and have the best day ever.
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