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PSYCHOLOGY
Why Your Role Model Should Be Hypothetical
And not just anyone from past or present
Did you know that the babies have the potential to speak every language possible on earth in their early stage. They can pronounce every phoneme and learn just by raw observations. But as they grow up, they loose this ability, and get shaped in accordance to the culture they are living in.
The stories they hear, the vocabulary they absorb, all the external inputs craft an internal sub-conscious role model within them. This is the reason why children pretend to be someone they want to be when they’re role playing with others.
For example, a child with English origin pretends to be a Knight slaying dragons and saving princess, whereas in several other European countries, children pretend to be Cowboys and Indians.
They have a self-made crystal clear image of the person they wanted to be like.
But as they get old, they loose this ability to conceptualize this image, and this persona gets push back in the corner of their mind. A blur images of what they could be in that hypothetical world.
Religions were meant to give this ideal role model to its followers. The persona of god or some archetype, towards whom people can look after in good…
