Confirm your lives, confirm your stories

liveS—and our storieS about them—are both plural: professional, familial, avocational…
Since you “add strength to” Etymology of ‘confirm’) what you’ve actually done, you’re called to build upon with further actions.
This is not blind loyalty to your younger self and the decisions he/she made.
- Confirmation can be through an iteration. Building upon the past usually requires some alterations, innovations, etc.
- Sometimes that entails confirming the lesson learned by living, that is an infection point.

v. Confirmation Bias

“Confirmation bias” is the infamous inspiration for Confirmation Bios

This bias refers to our tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms our existing beliefs or preconceptions. This common cognitive bias can affect decision-making in various aspects of life, perhaps most frequently seen in politics (which is opining, only periodically wrapped in a vote) investing (opining, backed up with money).

Confirmation Bios is also a bias, but one that is more apt for embracing.

You have skin in the game; not merely opinions

honor your ancestor (i.e. your earlier/younger self)
- you owe it to [[Your Younger You]] to benefit from his/her struggles and suffering. Perhaps, even likely, “mistakes we made”—and now is the opportunity to learn from those hard-won lessons.
- This doesn’t require you to "double down"; you always have an opportunity to choose

WHEN

Confirmation Bios works better for those who have taken roads less traveled. If you took a path of least resistance, you’re likely following someone else’s itinerary. In which case you’re confirming not just your own life and your own story, but that of your culture, a parent, mentor or other influencer.

HOW

Triple Guessing

"**^^ #bio building [[April 29th, 2024]]: meologism for flexicon

confirm the choices you made, paths you took, not opinions you have
- Opt > opine #[[Opt, Then Optimize]]
  - own your opts / optings (your choices):
    - if made mistake => you learned from them THE HARD WAY:
      - TM (TM) those lessons: build your IP
The [[unlived]] life isn't worth examining---should fit into this
bioS plural--as we've lived multiple lives (NOT talking reincarnation, but we've taken many paths--and we haven't yet integrated them) and had multiple stories about those lives: biographieS
- revisit those mistakes: akin to the priests who re-confess the same sins repeatedly to their confessors I learned
  - re-remember: do so from different vantage points / perspectives
Could stylize / visualize as vines with leaves [[graphic]]