Replying to @ChristiansDiscriminatedMe The ability to justify initial thoughts is so uniquely human. Every other species will learn from new information and pivot behavior accordingly. Humans however, dig their heels in and claim to be right, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. It’s sad that Americans are being faced with the crossroads of needing to choose to stay in chaos or leave to find peace. As I always say, it’s a lot of mental gymnastics going on to rationalize why they are staying in the United States. “Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.” - J.K. Galbraith 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokEncyclopediaContest
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My comment section reads like a bunch of teenagers arguing with their parents because they know best. As I read through my comment section, I find that most people in there are arguing with me. And I love this quote from an economist that says, "Based with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof." And that's what's happening in my comment section. There are people who are researching all these answers and just coming up with AI fluff from random articles. And instead of thinking about why my post is triggering them and making them feel like they need to prove why they're stain put in the United States, they instead tell me, "I've researched the flights there and they're too expensive." I found out that groceries there are too expensive. I found this one article about a crime that occurred in 2019. And that must mean that the country is a war zone. And none of these things individually mean that a place is not a good place to move. But the broader picture isn't that you're arguing about that individual place, not being a good place to move. The bigger picture is really that you are convincing yourself that your decision to stay is the right one. If you don't know me yet, I'm Veronica. And five years ago, I took my family of four out of the United States, and we've lived on three different continents so that I can take all of the knowledge we've learned about making mistakes, living somewhere that wasn't right for us, and bottled it up to put out here on the internet for you. The problem that you're having, you are digging in to find reasons why not to live in individual places. It's not the moving abroad that's impossible. It's the changing your mindset that feels impossible. That's why you go search out the proof, the proof that it's too unsafe, the proof that it's too expensive, the proof that it's unrealistic. The real thing that's going on is that you are more committed to the story of how you are stuck in the United States than you are to finding a solution for where you could actually go. And that's where my expertise comes in, is I have global visa options. Out of the hundreds of visa options that I have in my database, one of them will be right for you. You don't need every country to work. You just need one. One of those can lead to change. One of those will inspire you to take action. But until then, stop convincing yourself that your decision to stay is right and validating it by all this proof It's not really proof at all.
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