The Echo Chamber
Wilkipedia’s definition: an “echo chamber refers to situations in which beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal. By participating in an echo chamber, people are able to seek out information that reinforces their existing views without encountering opposing views, potentially resulting in an unintended exercise in confirmation bias. Echo chambers may increase social and political polarization and extremism.”
We project into the outer world our story about ourselves and our wounds. This is an echo chamber, it is like an echo in the body. We are creating a closed system where very little new information can be received.
When we begin to unpack our wounds and our core negative beliefs about ourselves, we begin to have an opportunity to look at our lives and see where we have been in our own echo chamber. Our echo chamber is a perfect fit with our personal hang ups and issues.
This is tightly connected to the “veracity trap.” When we feel strong emotions, the strength of our emotions convince us that they are true.
Between the echo chamber that keeps reaffirming itself in a closed system and the veracity trap which convinces us of truth due to the strong charge, we have a very hard time finding a way out.
Here is an example of how it can manifest: we believe ourselves worthless, so we buy the cheapest things for ourselves. We undervalue our work and don’t charge enough. We drive a shitty car. We choose low quality across the board. We treat ourselves as deserving little value, so it’s no wonder that the world around us treats us the same way.
We keep on finding the same answer and we think that the answer is proof that there’s something wrong with us. We propagate it, begin to live it in all our spheres and then it becomes us.
Are you living in an echo chamber? Maybe a less extreme version? Is there some area of your life that deserves some new perspective?
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