Confirm your lives, confirm your stories
- Our liveS—and our storieS about them—are plural: professional, familial, avocational…
- Since you “add strength to” (the etymology of ‘confirm’) what you’ve actually done, you’re called to build upon with further actions.
- This is not blind loyalty to your younger self and the decisions he/she made.
- Confirmation can be through an iteration. Building upon the past usually requires some alterations, innovations, etc.
- Sometimes that entails confirming the lesson learned by living, that is an infection point.
vis-a-vis Confirmation Bias
“Confirmation bias” is the infamous inspiration for Confirmation Bios
This bias refers to our tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms our existing beliefs or preconceptions. This common cognitive bias can affect decision-making in various aspects of life, perhaps most frequently seen in politics (which is opining, only periodically wrapped in a vote) investing (opining, backed up with money).
Confirmation Bios is also a bias, but one that is more apt for embracing.
You have skin in the game; not merely opinions
- honor your ancestor (i.e. your earlier/younger self)
- you owe it to Your Younger You to benefit from his/her struggles and suffering. Perhaps, even likely, “mistakes we made”—and now is the opportunity to learn from those hard-won lessons.
- This doesn’t require you to "double down"; you always have an opportunity to choose
WHEN
Confirmation Bios works better for those who have taken roads less traveled. If you took a path of least resistance, you likely followed someone else’s itinerary. In that case you’re confirming not just your own life and your own story, but that of your culture, peers, a parent, mentor and/or other influencer(s).
HOW
Rough Stuff
"**^^ #bio building [[April 29th, 2024]]: meologism for flexicon
- confirm the choices you made, paths you took, not opinions you have
- Opt > opine #[[Opt, Then Optimize]]
- own your opts / optings (your choices):
- if made mistake => you learned from them THE HARD WAY:
- TM (TM) those lessons: build your IP
- if made mistake => you learned from them THE HARD WAY:
- own your opts / optings (your choices):
- Opt > opine #[[Opt, Then Optimize]]
- The [[unlived]] life isn't worth examining---should fit into this
- bioS plural--as we've lived multiple lives (NOT talking reincarnation, but we've taken many paths--and we haven't yet integrated them) and had multiple stories about those lives: biographieS
- revisit those mistakes: akin to the priests who re-confess the same sins repeatedly to their confessors I learned
- re-remember: do so from different vantage points / perspectives
- revisit those mistakes: akin to the priests who re-confess the same sins repeatedly to their confessors I learned
- Could stylize / visualize as vines with leaves [[graphic]]