Introduction Growing up, we accept the world exactly as it is explained to us. As children, we trust parents, teachers, elders, cartoons, and textbooks without hesitation. If something is said confidently enough, we believe it must be true. Questioning feels unnecessary—after all, why would adults be wrong? But adulthood has a funny way of revealing the truth. As we grow older, we slowly realize that many things we believed as kids were not facts at all. They were myths, half-truths, or oversimplified explanations passed down for convenience, discipline, or storytelling. Some of these ideas were harmless, while others shaped how we thought about our bodies, intelligence, and the world around us. Unlearning these myths is part of growing up. It sharpens our thinking and reminds us of an important life lesson: just because something is widely believed doesn’t mean it’s true. Let’s revisit some of the most common childhood myths that turned out to be completely wrong. 1. Bulls ...
Introduction Social anxiety is a disorder in which you suffer from a long-term fear of social situations. It is more than just shyness rather it's a fear that affects our everyday activities, relationships, and self-confidence. It does not go away. The spotlight effect is even worse for people with social anxiety as has a huge impact on your ability to work. People feel uncomfortable around others and feel embarrassed all the time. Spotlight effect and its examples The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias in which a person believes that the world is always watching him/her. In it, a person overestimates how much people notice him and thinks that people are paying much more attention to him than they actually do. In the spotlight effect, you feel like every move that you are making is under the microscope of the public eye that highlights your successes and failures, both. Very common examples of the spotlight effect include various situations like when you realize that your zipper ...