Beliefs can be poisonous...
Well... This is not about
stating that the wrong/negative beliefs could be harmful... A blog is little
uncalled-for such an obvious thing...
I am to logicize an unusual
oblique angle to the concept of belief... It's about the positive ones which
sometimes I see as harmful...
There is a stark difference
between "to believe in" and "to believe"... You generally
"believe in" a God/a ghost/a person/an idea/a principle/a policy/a
cause etc... Which are all ILL-DEFINED and ABSTRACT... Whereas you
"believe" WELL-DEFINED things such as a fact/a story/a rumor/a thing...
Now as I see... When you start
"believing in" an idea, it boosts your creativity... It gives you a
positive energy, a driving force for a cause, curiosity, and motivation... But
when this "believing in" a random idea, starts taking a SHAPE, it no
longer remains ABSTRACT... And it starts becoming confining... It hampers
creativity... A simultaneous conversion takes place of "confidence"
to a "sort-of-overconfidence"... which probably leads to a demise...
For example, you believe in an
expert for a solution to your problem... The faith in that person's help, keeps
you motivated and moving... But when the idea of help takes the shape of a
steady relief (a belief that you have the ultimate solution to your problems),
you start being dependent, non-creative, and disabled... Your mind stops trying
to seek solution to any problem for yourself... The confidence in the idea of
help shapes into the overconfidence...
Another example (of myself)...
Before I started writing, I was a non-believer...
When I started writing few
things, the idea that "I can write" made me curious, creative... and
helped me write well... Then followed the praise from people, which turned my
confidence into a "sort-of overconfidence" and a BELIEF... that
"I am a writer"... At that moment, the transition of the verb
"writing" to the noun "writer", made me a believer, killed
my curiosity... creativity too followed...
The bottom line is: I now
"believe in" an IDEA but I "believe" NOTHING... I am
better-off being a NON-BELIEVER than a BELIEVER...
Which one you are among the
two???
