Hi, my name is Matt Goddard, and today I want to talk to you about the victim bias. And when I say victim bias, well, I'm not talking about some heavy, judgmental perspective that says, look, you're a victim. The victim bias is like a spanner that you would use to fix your car or a pen that you would use to write a story.
It is just something that is neutral, but it is something that's important to understand because a victim bias can cloud your mind with all kinds of thoughts that you're somehow subject to that bias, that a life circumstance that you've experienced has brought about a set of circumstances that you are a prisoner to, that somehow that circumstance is doing something to you.
The victim bias is a mindset such as it is that stops you from seeing a whole range of possibilities or opportunities that you could take or even choices that you could make that would help you become an owner of your circumstance and an owner of your perspective, rather than being subject to the prevailing circumstances in which you find yourself.
The prison that the victim bias creates for you by filling your mind with lots of worries, anxieties and concerns and taking up the space that you might otherwise use for clarity. So the victim bias is just something that we need to understand. It is something that we can all find ourselves experiencing. And it is a tendency towards thinking that something is happening to me from the outside, that I have no choice but to accept and be subject to.
Now, the owner bias is a tendency to think about, well, yes, I am experiencing in the present moment these situations, but what can I do that will take me maybe just the tiniest step forward so that I am owning my response to these circumstances rather than being a victim to them. Now the owner bias is a mindset just the same as a victim bias.
And so in that sense it is again just a spanner that you might fix your car with or a pencil with which you would write a story. But it is a bias that is, let's say, more helpful to the individual rather than the victim bias. The owner bias is a mindset that helps you see that there are choices that you can make or in fact, that the choices that you've made have contributed to your situation and therefore noticing that you are then able to build a plan that helps you moving forward.
So I just wanted to share that with you in this time, just to say be mindful of the bias in which you're currently living and working and how it is informing your world, how it is informing your perspective of circumstances, and how it is perhaps impacting the life which you are experiencing in this present moment. Now, I first became aware of the victim bias through the writing and teaching of Steve Chandler.
Steve Chandler is a wonderful coach who has written many books about the victim bias and his book Crazy Good Life is a wonderful starting point. If you want to discover more, if you'd like to find out more about me, you can go to my website and you'll find those details below. Thanks very much. Take care for now, bye.
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