NLP: Generalisation, Deletion, & Distortion

<p>Transcript:<br><a href="https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/62205477">https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/62205477</a></p><p>Speaker 0 (0s): &lt;inaudible&gt; </p><p>Speaker 1 (9s): So ascribing, meaning to events. That's the first one there Generalisation Deletion Distortion here we go. The next key idea is when we learn, we generalize. When we learn, we generalize this color person robbed that person over there. Therefore, all of these colors, people, Rob people, the guy speeding past me. It was in a red car. </p><p>Therefore red cars, all speed, the guy and this kind of uniform takes away the bad guys. Therefore the people in these kind of uniforms always take away bad guys. Do you see it? So they call those. That's like a heuristic. It's like a mental shortcut that people do. So they don't have to do long, hard thinking about it. Not because they're lazy, not cause they don't want to do long, long, critical thinking. </p><p>It's just a mental shortcut that most people use in order to get on with their day. Right? It's like having the, the doors auto lock instead of having to reach over and lock them yourself. The doors. When I shut my door, they auto lock there for, I don't need to lock the doors. So you got to be in charge of your own thinking and re evaluate and retune the way you think things through generalizations can be good. </p><p>They allow us to save time. They allow us to have a big picture and they allow us to have a foundation on which to judge. However, it is those generalizations that at times back us into a corner or it is those generalizations that allow us to be manipulated. Think of the BLM movement. How are people generalizing that? How do you generalize that? </p><p>Another key idea is still on Generalisation is Generalisation is how beliefs get formed. Billy's filter all the different stimuli coming in the mind doesn't really get raw information it no longer to get to choose. So if you think about that, think about any event that happens and there's multiple variables and each vari