Our memories are fallible and can become cemented in faulty recollections over time. Our brains also have biases that cause us to seek information only confirming what we already believe and to resist facts challenging those beliefs. Stereotypes form as our brains strive to conserve energy by making assumptions, but they often rely on faulty information from fictional media and negative early experiences shaped more by fear than reason or logic. To overcome these biases, we must recognize how our beliefs form and make conscious efforts to consider alternative perspectives.

1. S T E R E O T Y P E S A N D
F A U L T Y B E L I E F S
ALEXANDRA "DELYRIC ORACLE"
DE SCHEEL

2. M E M O R I E S
Even your own memory is
not to be trusted, given
that scientists now know
we don't actually
remember events as they
are, we remember our last
memory of remembering
them, which is why the
more you remember an
event the more cemented
it becomes, but also the
more faulty that memory is

3. C O N F I R M A T I O N B I A S
YOUR BRAIN WILL SEARCH FOR ONLY INFORMATION WHICH
CONFIRMS THE BELIEFS YOU ALREADY HOLD AND DISREGARD ALL
EVIDENCE WHICH MAY DISPEL SUCH BELIEFS
C O G N I T I V E
D I S S O N A N C E
M E N T A L
C O N S E R V A T I O N S T E R E O T Y P E S
your brain doesn't like
the feeling of
believing in something
while being provided
evidence it isn't true
still fearing attack from
predators, our brains
are always striving to
conserve energy and
not function when not
needed
so it will group all
similar people and
events and assume
the following events
transpiring with
similar people are for
similar reasons

4. Studies have found that the
implicit and explicit racism and
sexism within Americans has
averaged about 89% in recent
years dispelling the myth of a
melting pot like existence
8 9 %
A 2009 study found that people are 36%
more likely to read an entire essay if it
agrees with their beliefs, now since
google and social media has made it
easy to find only those studies which
confirm beliefs that number is nearing
100%.
3 6 %
- FRANCIS BACON
“ T H E H U M A N U N D E R S T A N D I N G W H E N I T H A S O N C E
A D O P T E D A N O P I N I O N ( E I T H E R A S B E I N G T H E R E C E I V E D
O P I N I O N O R A S B E I N G A G R E E A B L E T O I T S E L F ) D R A W S A L L
T H I N G S E L S E T O S U P P O R T A N D A G R E E W I T H I T . ”

5. T W O T H I N G S
I'D LIKE TO ADD TO THINK ABOUT
First, if our brains have not yet caught up
to advances in our society enough to
understand that we do not need to
constantly be on the lookout for predator
attack and that thinking is actually a
more useful spending of our mental
energies, then they have certainly not
caught up enough to understand
television, music and other forms of
fictional entertainment... they therefore
in all liklihood take these sources of
information in as peer review or
experience.

6. N E X T T I M E Y O U
W A T C H T Vtake note of any stereotypes you see portrayed which you
may have never actually come into contact with but yet
believe to the point of "yeah of course... the black dude
they arrested is pleading innocence and racism which is
what they all do when they are guilty and caught"
ridiculousness. The reality is that there are extreme
discrepencies in not only the amount of black and
Hispanic people incarcarated for crimes that whites
commit more often, but in the sentencing allocated which
gives nonwhite men the same sentences for nonviolent
offenses as white men recieve for murder, homicide,
assault and rape.

7. 2
the second addition to this information I would
like you to consider is this: those first beliefs
that you form which are so very hard (if not
impossible) to break without concentrated
efforts (which our brains will fight) are usually
formed by negative rather than positive events.

8. F E A R I S S T R O N G E R T H A N L O V E
People's insecurity, fear of social sanction, fear of
being made fun of, fear of being hurt, fear of not
being loved or accepted tends to be stronger than
their ability to stand up on reason, logic, and what
is right (espeically at the younger age at which
beliefs are first formed).

9. C O M B I N E T H I S W I T H T H E
F A C T . . .
T H A T M O S T B E L I E F S S T R O N G
E N O U G H T O T A K E H O L D
and the fact that these types of bad events are
usually caused by the type of people who have given
in to their fear (the bullies, the weak minded, the
prejudiced, the fearful and the hate filled who choose
to display these traits proudly as armour because
they too were damaged young into fearing reason
which defeated the beliefs of those who damaged
them).
ARE FORMED BY NEGATIVE RATHER THAN
POSITIVE INTERACTIONS OR MEMORIES

10. W E I G N O R E T H E
P O S I T I V E
BECAUSE AVOIDING THE NEGATIVE TAKES PRECEDENT
U N F O R T U N A T E L Y T H E O N L Y W A Y W E K N O W T O A V O I D I T I S T O B E C O M E I T
so that we never have to face ridicule, mocking, criticism or hate for
"not knowing" or "not seeing" what is not there to be known or seen
outside of the damage the damaged pass on in the form of fear for
ignorance they thus create in another generation.

11. U N L E A R N