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What if… we followed every piece of important information to its source?

Jeff Carter
4 min readMay 7, 2023

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So let’s break down the two main words in this statement. The first is important information: this would really be what adds to or detracts from our core beliefs.

Core beliefs note: most people and many companies have what they consider to be a set of core beliefs. These are usually some statements that have been memorized, or have been said so much over time that they’ve sort of become ingrained. However, most psychologist, sociologists, and other relevant ‘ologist’ will pretty much tell you that a big part of our core beliefs actually reside in the subconscious. So what we normally say is just the explicit part, and a good part of our true core beliefs resides in a deep part of our tacit or buried knowledge. For more information check out buried knowledge.

Where I want to spend most of the time is this idea of talking about the source.

No, this is not some veiled reference to the Matrix trilogy. It is more of a research focus and looking at how to categorize the types of content that we are letting infiltrate our minds. Even that making that last statement is not accurate as it means we are aware. When I say that we are ‘letting infiltrate’ means we are we have…

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Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter

Written by Jeff Carter

Learning Architect / Freelance Educationist

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