Echo in a Bubble: Why We Struggle Processing Our Own Emotions

Are your opinions and perspectives are your own? Where do you get the information that influenced them?

When’s the last time your mind was challenged in an expansive way?

What do you actually believe in because you believe it, not because of someone else?

If those are difficult questions to answer, I feel you.

I’ve been living a large part of my life influenced by so many other opinions. That in itself is not a bad thing, but I started to trust other people’s perspectives as fact before I even had the chance to evaluate my own.

When learning about a new idea, I find myself searching for perspectives on Google or YouTube to hear what other people think about it first. And I end up merging myself towards the stronger personalities’ thoughts and feelings about the topic, giving up my ability to process my own emotions.

The advent of the Internet and social media gives us the beautiful ability to access any piece of information you ever want to know. But now we have the problem of information overload, and we’re just grabbing onto the closest one that resonates with us. That’s the hope with creating artificial intelligence and personalized marketing, to embed our preferences into the technology, so that we only get…