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Confirm your lives, confirm your stories

• Our liveS—and our storieS about them—are plural: professional, familial, avocational…
• Since you “add strength to” (the 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.

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Confirmation Bios merges What: SUP transparency, radical acceptance, and Supply-Side Ethics

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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]]