This thought just came to me as I was watching a YouTube video.  Pay attention to what you watch and listen to because it is as if it preloads your thoughts.  I am talking to myself here.  

I think it is amazing how I get dragged down the rabbit hole as I watch YouTube videos.  I think, I really enjoy watching most of the videos that I do but I sometimes just get dragged down into a topic that I really don’t want to watch.  It is as if I am compelled to click on it.

I don’t want to waste time talking about the algorithms of YouTube.  I think it is a given that they are successful in getting people to watch for hours at a time.  What I want to talk about instead is that I need to pay more attention to the things that I watch and listen to.  Videos that I watch cause me to have different expectations about the world I live in.  

I am pretty optimistic by nature and I find that when I go down some of the rabbit holes that I go down on YouTube it causes me to become more suspicious of people.  I become more judgmental and am less likely to engage others in conversation.  Sometimes because I think that they might be hostile or dislike me because of how I look or the color of my skin.  

Thankfully most of the time my nature wins out and I do engage people in conversation and am  broken out of the bias that was created by watching the videos that I watched.

I am right back where I was when I started this post:  Pay very close attention to what you watch and listen to because the videos that you are watching as mindless entertainment are working to change your bias.  If nothing else just be cognizant of this.

Think about it!