You and your beliefs about the world
You and what you believe in the world
People in the world are essentially the same, but with a certain amount of life experience you can sometimes feel that there are still some hard-to-eliminate differences between some people and others. People used to talk about differences in class, education, and personality, but now it’s more popular to talk about differences in “intellect” or “cognition”, which simply means that if you don’t see eye to eye, you’re not the same person.
The “three views” - world view, life view and values - are about a person’s basic concepts, guiding thoughts and behavioral preferences. It is sometimes difficult for two people who do not share the same outlook to communicate, and some topics will blow up when they talk about them. So where exactly is the so-called incompatibility? Where exactly is the most fundamental difference in understanding between people?
In this talk, we will introduce a new concept that has been proposed by the psychology community only in the last few years, which should be regarded as a major discovery, and I believe it will become a mainstream idea in the future, because it depicts the most fundamental difference in cognition between human beings - it’s called “Primal World Beliefs “.
Primal World Beliefs are your most basic beliefs about what the world is like, like some sort of primal impulse, your innermost intuitive beliefs about whether the world is intrinsically good or bad, safe or dangerous, interesting or boring, etc.
Researchers have argued that primitive world beliefs largely determine the way you interact with the world and some of your life decisions, and strongly influence your mental health and well-being [1].
Primitive world beliefs are the three most fundamental views of a person.
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This doctrine was spearheaded by Jeremy D. W. Clifton, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. His initial goal was to see what types of basic beliefs people have about the world [2]. Clifton took the lead in organizing a multinational, interdisciplinary team of researchers who spent five years looking for statements about people’s basic views of the world in a variety of fields.
