Breaking from influence and seeing the world through your own eyes is huge.
For me, the big area is finance and beliefs about money.
My parents were constantly reading the newspapers and making socially conditioned comments about pensions, mortgages etc. I grew up hearing all that crap, my rational brain screaming "wait... that doesnt make sense, the numbers don't work..." but feeling anxious because they and everyone else around me seemed so certain about it.
Even now they read the papers and say "state pensions up, oh that's good for you" without even thinking about it at all (whether it's even worth investing in a state pension compared to other options, how the impact on me would *actually* depends on inflation and what the government does over the next 40 years, lol). Growing up, that really messed my brain up, when I could do the actual maths and see the things they were advocating actually weren't what wealthy people did atall.
And where did their financial mindset get them? Blown all their cash and into credit card debt. Now I realise I gotta just tune out the sort of "wisdom" they espouse because I can see where it got them.
Thing is, you can't change peoples mindset, even if you were to educate them extensively. People stick to their beliefs for emotional reasons too. And I'd never want to completely stay away my family over something like that, but I do have to remember to shrug off that influence when I'm around them.
For me, the big area is finance and beliefs about money.
My parents were constantly reading the newspapers and making socially conditioned comments about pensions, mortgages etc. I grew up hearing all that crap, my rational brain screaming "wait... that doesnt make sense, the numbers don't work..." but feeling anxious because they and everyone else around me seemed so certain about it.
Even now they read the papers and say "state pensions up, oh that's good for you" without even thinking about it at all (whether it's even worth investing in a state pension compared to other options, how the impact on me would *actually* depends on inflation and what the government does over the next 40 years, lol). Growing up, that really messed my brain up, when I could do the actual maths and see the things they were advocating actually weren't what wealthy people did atall.
And where did their financial mindset get them? Blown all their cash and into credit card debt. Now I realise I gotta just tune out the sort of "wisdom" they espouse because I can see where it got them.
Thing is, you can't change peoples mindset, even if you were to educate them extensively. People stick to their beliefs for emotional reasons too. And I'd never want to completely stay away my family over something like that, but I do have to remember to shrug off that influence when I'm around them.