When I claim “every little thing operates on opinions,” I’m not attempting to be clever. I’m defining how I experience life. My mind resembles a recorder that never ever switches off. It takes in what I see, hear, and feel, stashes it, and maintains processing behind-the-scenes. Out of that continuous process come my point of views. They aren’t last mandates carved in stone. They’re the most effective answers I have now, offered what I have actually seen, lived, and thought through. New inputs can shift them. A peaceful rethinking can shift them too, even without new truths. So my viewpoints are both mine and moving.
This post outlines the components of that system that I’m maintaining for the “Viewpoints” piece: the mental pipeline, the uniqueness of everyone’s opinion collection, the resources of adjustment, the social tangle of fact and count on, and the side situations that evaluate me. I’m not writing to convince you that I’m best about every little thing. I’m writing to reveal you exactly how I function, so you can review just how you function too.
1 The mental pipe I live with
If I needed to attract just how point of views form for me, the picture is straightforward:
Detects → Thought → Believing → Point of view
It starts with inputs. I notice something when driving, a headline, a memory that surfaces. That raw input …