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And every time, you get the same result: People who are made aware of their mortality are more willing to
believe
stories that tell them they can escape death and live forever.
Now, this shows that reminding people of death biases them to believe, regardless of the evidence, and it works not just for religion, but for any kind of belief system that promises immortality in some form, whether it's becoming famous or having children or even nationalism, which promises you can live on as part of a greater whole.
And these immortality stories have thousands of different manifestations, but I
believe
that behind the apparent diversity there are actually just four basic forms that these immortality stories can take.
Throughout European history, we find them in the work of the alchemists, and of course we still
believe
this today, only we tell this story using the vocabulary of science.
And the idea that we can all be resurrected to live again is orthodox believe, not just for Christians but also Jews and Muslims.
But our desire to
believe
this story is so deeply embedded that we are reinventing it again for the scientific age, for example, with the idea of cryonics.
And so some people
believe
an omnipotent god will resurrect them to live again, and other people
believe
an omnipotent scientist will do it.
Now, the majority of people on Earth
believe
they have a soul, and the idea is central to many religions.
The fact that some people
believe
an omnipotent god will resurrect them to live again and others
believe
an omnipotent scientist will do it suggests that neither are really believing this on the strength of the evidence.
Rather, we
believe
these stories because we are biased to
believe
them, and we are biased to
believe
them because we are so afraid of death.
Now, if you don't
believe
me, think of comparing the brightness of a firefly in your backyard to the navigation lights on a distant airplane.
We firmly
believe
it's likely to be a leftover archaeological remnant from the process of the birth of another planetary system, some celestial driftwood.
Whatever it is, we
believe
it's a natural object, but we can't actually prove that it's not something artificial.
Now while we don't
believe
this is alien technology, why not do the obvious experiment and search for a radio signal?
And
believe
me, as an economist, I am also scared.
It's easier to help schizophrenics who perceive that there's something foreign inside of them that needs to be exorcised, but it's difficult with depressives, because we
believe
we are seeing the truth.
And I was there, and I worked in that job because I
believe
that technology can improve people's lives.
So at D-Rev, we've done some other projects, and we looked at three things that we really
believe
gets technologies to customers, to users, to people who need it.
So the second thing we learned, and this leads into my second point, which is that we
believe
that products need to be designed to be user-centric.
We really, truly
believe
that if a product is going to reach users at the scale that it's needed, it needs to be market-driven, and market-driven means that products are sold.
And we
believe
that as designers, it holds us accountable to our customers.
None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you
believe
and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you
believe
in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.
A lot of people with CP don't walk, but my parents didn't
believe
in "can't."
And I
believe
that technology is actually a cosmic force.
Your brain also has its own sense of what you should weigh, no matter what you consciously
believe.
And that was really effective, because people that didn't
believe
our assumptions could try their own and see how it would work.
And I do
believe
that the answer to that is going to be leadership.
PM: I think that one of the most striking parts about the book, and in my opinion, one of the reasons it's hit such a nerve and is resonating around the world, is that you are personal in the book, and that you do make it clear that, while you've observed some things that are very important for other women to know, that you've had the same challenges that many others of us have, as you faced the hurdles and the barriers and possibly the people who don't
believe
the same.
It unites all of us in a cause we have to
believe
in, which is more women, more voice, more equality.
It is not black and white, as conservatives would have us
believe.
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