Just like a computer, a human brain is similar, as in what is downloaded, always has a chance to affect the system. However, just like how different computers have different operating systems, the human mind has set ways on thinking also.
Notice how quickly people will defend a point, in politics or morality, when that said point, doesn’t really do anything for their betterment. These same people will sometimes even attack people who are trying to guide them away from these hurtful beliefs. Even with the original point of view not being reinforced and being disliked, there are some people who will not drop their original point of view. Even when having facts presented, or when the original idea is pointed out as detrimental, people will still be steadfast on sticky to their beliefs. Some people who are more open-minded can’t help but marvel at seeing how loyal people is, to such harmful ideologies and other beliefs. Sometimes these same group of people will even go out of their way to hurt people with different beliefs and opinions, while also presenting themselves as a person with a moral high ground, for attacking people minding their own business.

Some people will defend a group that is foreign to their beliefs and people, while at the same time pushing policies which actually hurt them. It can’t be helped but many have found this kind of behavior scary, while at the same time raising curiosity, out of the more mentally sane crowd. When we study these people, who go out of their way to carry out such attacks, whether it’s violence in the streets, or low-class online trolling, all these people seem to have one thing in common. Anchoring. Most of these people who are pushing for these weird agendas or going out of their way to support something politically harmful, are usually encompassed by a belief that they are helping the world and saving it from some unknown threat.

The craziest part about all of this is how anyone can do it. The first step is identifying what you want to do, and what your goals are. Everyone has something they feel a calling for or something they believe they should share information about. After that test out sharing your ideas online, using multiple different platforms and methods. Some people are better at using other platforms, compared to others. While this might seem obvious, the type of content you create, and styling will dictate success as well. Your best bet is to try different post styles, ideas, and platforms, and see which one works the best. Once you have found what works best, for whatever idea you’re trying to convey, look at the scalability of your operation, mostly done by raising your follower account, but there are ways people can pay for more views.

Anchoring is the process of getting someone attached to an idea, by being the first to pitch the idea. If you are able to get the person to believe something first, about a subject, a person will relate everything else they hear to that first belief, even if there is no truth to their first belief.
Hegel Dialectic is where someone states a problem, and offers a solution, however the solution is usually something that was already pre desired, while the problem stated is usually nonexistent or superficial.

The most well-known of these though process is called “All-or-Nothing Things” This is also sometimes referred to as “Black-and-White Thinking.” This thought process could be detrimental to one’s own happiness since they are usually struggling for perfection. While if they don’t feel like they meet their perfection standards on a specific task, they are considering failures. This is pretty much the group of people who say if it can’t be done right, don’t do it at all. Many people in this group have a hard time having a fulfilling life, since most of their time and energy is spent correcting problems that don’t require such a high level of care. OCD is a great example of this kind of thinking.

Overgeneralization is another form of these thought processes. When someone says they notice a pattern, based on a single or a small quantity of events, they fall into this category. Some of these noticed patterns are correct. The right winged conspiracy theory crowd is famous for this one, however not everyone who over generalizes is correct. If someone, or yourself catches themselves over generalizing a situation, make sure they are collecting enough data, and evidence before forming an overgeneralized stance. If they have done their research and studied enough events, then overgeneralized points of views are almost always correct.

Another part of this operating system can be called mental filters. This is the process where someone will only pay attention to certain types of evidence, while disregarding, equally true, if not more trustworthy evidence at the same time. Most of the time this is due to anchoring, where they believe that one source or a certain type of source has integrity, even if they are proven to be unreliable when it comes to information. These could be people going so far as to cherry pick information to support their cause. Sometimes someone will have a mental filter, but listen to a source’s stories, based on what they what they are trying to convey, some evidence they might be willing to accept, while avoiding looking at other pieces of evidence from the same source. A good example of this is when someone only notices failures and doesn’t notice any successes, and vice versa. Maybe something will have multiple failures, but thanks to mental filters, only sees nothing but pure successes.

One of the biggest and most predominant mental filters is people who disqualify the positive. We all met someone, who no matter what seems to be nothing but negative. Usually, these same people are quick to identify anything good as false, while at the same time spending most of their life focusing on the negative aspects of anything they have to deal with or conversate about. Sometimes they’ll even have conversations where they’ll focus on discrediting good things that have personally happened to you. It sucks to be this kind of person, but it sucks even worse when one of these people is involved with your own life or is involved with your personal business. These people are usually an emotional drag on the people around them and are usually best to be discounted from your own life and conversations.

Just like how people with mental filters, other people may jump to conclusions. Usually these are the people who don’t fully comprehend situations, telling other people things which aren’t generally true. When it comes to people jumping to conclusions, there are usually two types. Mind readers, and future tellers. The mind reader is usually someone who thinks they fully know who someone thinks and reacts. Future tellers are people who think they know what their future holds, no matter what, even when evidence of a future event is far and few. Most mind readers are also the same kind of people who are future tellers. Usually these people are highly narcissistic, and wrong about any predictions they might make.
Magnification and Minimization are on two totally different sides of the spectrum when it comes to the thought process. Magnification can also be called catastrophizing, where they blow any story out of proportion. This could be something, like a common cold being labeled as a pandemic. Minimization is when someone inappropriately shrinks the importance of an idea to make it seem less important than the topic actually is.

Emotional reasoning is the process where someone determines what’s true and what’s important, based solely on their emotions. This group of people usually develop problems later on in conversation where people will not listen to something important if it makes their feeling hurt. Physical health is affected by this mental process, where people will not accept bad news and advice about their health, usually at a time when a lifestyle change is needed to improve their longevity. These are the same people who claim to always be afraid to do stuff, because they usually fear embarrassment. These people are also more easily controlled by something like Hegel’s Dialectic when people are utilizing their emotions to control their decisions.

Some people always act in a moral manner, and always do things that they feel will give them moral high ground over other people. This could be due to their religion, political alignment, or just because of the world view they have. While everyone does have morals, and some morals help people, not all moralists act in healthy manners. Some people will do something based on their moral compass, which does more harm than good. This is very similar to an emotional thinker, but has a focus more on morals, compared to emotions.

Some people use words like “Ought,” “Must,” and “Should.” This is simply anchoring, in the form of a preprogram conversation. People will use these words to say something which they were preprogrammed to believe, with the common belief being that things need to do a certain way, because that’s the way it was always done. These people will always get frustrated, when people do or say something that goes against their anchored belief. It’s always interesting when someone does this and goes against a person’s anchored beliefs. Usually, a person in this mental category will not change their stance. This doesn’t mean there aren’t people who believe something, simply because they never learn any better.

This is the thought process of giving things labels, and using such labels, to dictate opinions on something. Sometimes if someone or something has one attribute that’s worth labeling, a person who’s a labeler will use a minor attribute, to label the whole entity as such. For instance, they might call some media fake news, because they don’t have the same production value as a professional media station, yet even though the news they present might be real. The same could be said about a media conglomerate, who pushes mostly fake stories, being labeled as reliable, simply because one says. They can also label someone an “idiot, retard, or stupid” for something that happened in the past, while never regarding any else they say respectfully, just because of a negative label.

Personalization is where someone takes on too much fault, for things that are out of their control. There is also a flip side to this, where people will conversely, blame other people for things that are their own fault. Even when someone causes their own misfortunes, they will quickly look for other people to come and take the blame, while at the same time will be the first to take personal credit for achievements done by a completely different person.

This is a thought process where someone will talk about another person, but ultimately talk about them, in a way that describes themselves. For instance, if someone is dishonest, they’ll consider everyone else around them to be untrustworthy. This is usually done to mask a negative trait in an individual, while also shifting people’s focus from personal negative traits to that same trait being that of another person. When someone is steadfast on giving you an untrue label, and you’re looking for a cause behind what’s being said, never forget about projecting. It could help you identify negative attributes about a person earlier on.

Stockholm Syndrome isn’t so much a thought process, as it is someone who is overly manipulated, into taking the side of their manipulator, or when they side with someone who doesn’t have their best interest. Stockholm Syndrome is normally used to describe hostages in a hostage situation who sides with their captors. Sometimes people with Stockholm syndrome will go so far as to become violent to people who actually are trying to help them. This is usually the result of manipulation and lies.

Some people have tendencies, to have thought processes, based more on comedy. For example, some people’s main focus, when doing something, is entertainment purposes only. If they notice that something they say triggers someone to do something they find funny. Let’s say bringing up a certain topic causes someone to lash out, in an embarrassing way, a comedian might just bring up a topic, so someone lashes out in an embarrassing, yet also comical way. These people are usually labeled as oppositional, or manipulative, while their main focus is just laughter. I know I’ve met many people, some are narcissistic, annoying, and emotionally abusive, but these are the same people who have the funniest reactions to things you’ll say. Most people who fall victim to this are usually slow to learn that they are being laughed at, rather than laughing with. A lot of the people who I don’t like, who encroach on me in different ways, are usually dealt with in this manner. Just because public embarrassment and laughter at, is usually the best for revenge and repellent for toxic people.

Attention hoarding is when someone live their life, with attention from others, being their driving force in the choices they make. These people are usually very flamboyant in the way they dress and act. This type of person is usually well known by others around them, while at the same time, are usually disliked by the people closest to them. Sometimes this need for such a large amount of attention will lead to personal embarrassment, annoyingness, or coming off as narcissistic.

Some people are only able to copy what they see and hear other people do. Sometimes it varies from person to person, and situation to situation. However, there are people who copy people around them, with both how they talk and think. This can actually be a very helpful technique when talking to people.

Traumatic experiences have the same effect. Even traumatic experiences from our childhood, where they might not remember in detail clearly, will have an effect on their thought process later on and throughout their adult lives. However, the best-known form of this problem is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, where people will relate a minor, insignificant event in their life, to something horrible that happened in the past, using cause mental pain and chaos in the present.

It should be no surprise that some substances affect our thinking. This is very well known for drugs and alcohol, but chemicals in a person’s surroundings or in their food. Food is something that isn’t looked at as a big factor in thought, but an unhealthy diet effects our thinking in a negative way, while eating healthier improves a person’s thought process. Magnesium and healthy fats are the two biggest areas where most people are lacking proper nutrition. Regular exercise also helps with thought too.

As sad as it is to say, some people have thought processes that are limited by genetic factors. This leads to certain groups of people having lower IQ than others. While some people are born healthy, but due to something like a Traumatic Brain Injury, are incapable of thinking like a normal person. While all these factors differ, some people may use one or more of these thought factors in their thinking. Sometimes it depends on a person’s situation as well as their surroundings, which changes the way they think, and the thought process being used.