| Why is gossip bad | | | | own database. Unless Sam does a considerable |
| I never understood how dangerous gossip is until I | | | | amount of effort to prove otherwise your friend will |
| studied psychology where I discovered that a word | | | | find hundreds of clues that supports the fact that he |
| or two that we say can result in destroying the | | | | is mean. |
| relationship of many people months later!! | | | | Your friend will then start to treat Sam in a bad way |
| Your mind doesn’t see, hear or read but it tries | | | | after discovering that he is mean which will let Sam |
| to match what it receives from the external world | | | | respond back with bad treatment too. |
| with what it has in the internal world and That’s | | | | Shortly those two people will become enemies and |
| why you mihgt not notcie the erros that are in this | | | | they will start to hate each other. And guess what, |
| phrsae you are currenlty raeding. | | | | all of this happened because of the small seed you |
| Even if you noticed these errors your mind will | | | | planted when you told your friend that Sam is a |
| quickly try to find a match for them in its internal | | | | mean person!! |
| database so that it allows you to get the correct | | | | Now what if you told him that Sam is mean, selfish, |
| meanings. | | | | worthless and not interesting? |
| The same goes for hearing, have you ever heard a | | | | |
| phrase that you didn't recognize its words then few | | | | Gossip and mind programming |
| seconds later you got what the other person was | | | | Our minds get programmed by repetition. Even if |
| trying to say? Its the same thing exactly, your mind | | | | your friend was on good terms with Sam, still |
| tried to find the closest match for the phrase and | | | | repeating the fact that he is mean will result in |
| that's why you understood it seconds later. | | | | programming his mind to believing that Sam is really |
| So what does this has to do with gossiping!!! Read | | | | mean. |
| further and you will get it. | | | | The effect of the programming will become 10 times |
| How gossiping affects the minds of the listeners | | | | more powerful if two people did the same thing, for |
| If a guy never met “Sam” and you told him | | | | example if you and a third friend told your other |
| that “Sam” is a mean person then his mind | | | | friend that Sam is mean he will become more likely to |
| will store in its database the fact that Sam is mean | | | | believe you. |
| even if he was not sure of it. | | | | In short, our minds always tries to match the |
| As soon as your friends meets Sam his mind will try | | | | external world with its internal world and by gossiping |
| to match Sam’s behavior with its internal | | | | about someone you are modifying the listener’s |
| database which states that Sam is mean and so the | | | | internal world in such a way that he might find these |
| result will be interpreting any mistake that Sam | | | | bad things in the person you are talking about even if |
| makes as a sign for being mean. | | | | they were not there. |
| Moreover, if Sam did anything good your friend’s | | | | The only advice I have for you is to never gossip |
| mind will discard it because it doesn’t match its | | | | about someone, please try. |