Mental traps that prevent us from moving forward
A mental trap is a cognitive bias, it is a distorted thinking of reality that can prevent us from moving forward in our lives, even to the point of distorting our perception of reality to the point that we get to make wrong decisions that affect us negatively in our lives.
What are cognitive biases and how do they work?
Information can reach our mind, however the way we process it through thought can fail, then we would be talking about a cognitive bias, i.e. a failure to process the information that our mind perceives.
They are influential at the moment of making a transcendental decision, also when we issue a judgment or opinion we can be influenced by cognitive bias, unfortunately our mind takes these mental shortcuts to simplify a complex reality, that is why the simpler our life is the less risk of going through cognitive biases.
The way to act before this condition is to be aware that if we feel that our way of processing information is distorting our perception of reality, then it is the moment in which we have to give our life more simplicity, more tranquility so that our mind does not take the shortcuts that distort our reality.
Mental trap is deadly, the earlier we are able to identify them, the better we can move forward.