BELIEF... from another perspective

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???