 the doubt avoidance tendency. Now this tendency actually helped to survive back in the day. Put yourself in the shoes or shall I say the bare feet over Neanderthal or some other primal man. Imagine walking through the wilderness, the savannah, having a good old jolly time and then you see a sabertooth tiger or a beast just as formidable and ravenous. Are you going to think about what to do next, weigh out your options or are you gonna fight it or leg it. Luckily for us building to our hard drive into our DNA we have the tendency where we can make a quick decision and stick with it. So in a situation like that it will be flight, fight or flight. You will make the choice and you stick with it and this will help the species survive. Now fast forward a couple of notches to 2015 or whenever you're listening to this audio. The chances are you're never gonna be in a situation where you're gonna have to fight or flight a sabertooth tiger or anything of that caliber. So what happens is we still have a tendency and it now works to our detriment as we can make impulsive decisions that do not always benefit us or assist us. Some of the things we might just impulsively decide to do might not be productive might be counterproductive. So this is where we have to be more conscious in our daily choices. Now the doubt avoidance tendency is the reason why a lot of people cling on to their faith even though there's hundreds of other religions each as viable as the next. Each with their own God own messiahs. Once someone's chosen a religion they generally stick with it and don't look at any other alternatives. This is all part of the doubt avoidance tendency. You make an impulsive, you make a decision and you stick with it. Now this tendency Charlie says is triggered by puzzlement or stress. So when we're confused or when we're under a lot of pressure that's when we generally act more impulsively. I'm sure you are aware of this but let me give you an example. Imagine you're in a club and you see a girl and you want to talk to this girl. You walk over you've got your swagger going. You're one meter away from her now. You look at her she looks at you and you quickly turn the left. Walk away. When someone comes and asks you why did you not commit to it you have an array of excuses. She was on the phone. She was with her boyfriend or something along those lines. Now this is the doubt avoidance tendency. We make the impulsive decision at the last minute to get us out of trouble. You have no reason to actually not talk to the girl but you can justify your reasons just to avoid doubt. Now this is a very dangerous thing. Or another example that I'm sure we've all actually experienced. Have you ever been on the website and you were thinking about buying a new item? You go to checkout and right before you purchase the item you pull out close the browser. Go on YouTube instead and watch this video. Now the smallest things can pull us off and make us make decisions as soon as we feel a little bit unsettled. We can hop into this tendency just to avoid doubt and make impulsive decisions. So in 2015 we have to be a bit more conscious of every choice we make if we wish to be successful in our personal development. We cannot impulsively get out of something as soon as we feel uncomfortable. We need to slow it down and go from there. And I hope you guys enjoy this video. Peace. Alright guys if you haven't already make sure you check out the new personal development global group on Facebook. Link is in the description. Heaps of good shit for you. This is pretty much the go-to place for your personal development articles, free content for everybody and just the whole community that we're building up. There's no spam here. Also you can check out the link to my website, The Realized Man, right at this website and you can suss that out. If you have something to post make sure you check it out and come on. Anyway, have fun guys. Peace.