Beliefs are hard to change because nobody showed you how they work in the first place.
You’d change them if you knew how they were constructed in the first place.
Here is the breakdown.
A belief is nothing more than a confirmed thought that helps you navigate the world.
It’s your map of the territory.
For a belief to form, to be confirmed, it has to have three building blocks.
Once you know these, you can see how your beliefs, or your customers’ beliefs, come about and how to change them.
Every belief must have at least one of these three:
Evidence/reference, authority, or repetition.
Are you starting to see anything here?
Your belief only stays alive because one or more of these three is holding it up.
You have some sort of evidence/reference to back up why this is true.
You might have an authority figure who has told you this is true, so you believe it.
Or you’ve heard something over and over again until it has become confirmed as true.
Analyse what you believe is true.
Everything that comes after “because” is one of the three things holding it up.
Now, how do you break it apart so you can change your beliefs?
Well, you don’t tackle the belief head-on, because your mind will resist it.
So you dismantle the evidence/reference, authority, or repetition.
If you can find an exception to the rule, then it can no longer be fully true.
That’s when you start to open up the mind.
This is how beliefs work.
You’re welcome.
Now go use it and thank me later.