Egocentric Ways of Thinking

Egocentric Ways of Thinking
An egocentric tendency is the inclination to think only of oneself without thinking of others. Basically, this means putting some or all aspects in your life at the moment over everything else. I believe that everyone has egocentric tendencies mainly in areas where we fail to think logically. Three ways that I am egocentric include egocentric hypocrisy, blindness and immediacy.
Egocentric hypocrisy is the natural tendency to ignore flagrant inconsistencies between what we profess to believe and the actual beliefs our behavior imply, or inconsistencies between the standards to which we hold ourselves and those to which we expect others to adhere. This applies to me in various ways. For example, I want all of my friends to be as holy as a Christian. I’m not saying they need to be saved but I would like for them to practice religion. When people ask me what religion I am part of I always say I am a Christian because I was raised by a Christian woman and in a Christian home. Hypocritically, I don’t practice what I preach. I don’t agree with a lot of the things a Christian is supposed to live by, such as how we cant listen to certain kinds of music, how we cant have sex before marriage, smoke or drink, and do most things that teenagers would call fun. So in conclusion, I can’t hold my friends to certain standards when I do not even live by them myself.
Another egocentric tendency I possess is egocentric blindness, the natural tendency to not notice facts or evidence that contradict our favored beliefs or values. Meaning, I am ignorant to things that I don’t already know or haven’t seen with my own eyes. Since I am this way I always have my guard up and I feel like it is very hard to “trick” me. I don’t believe anything I haven’t seen with my own eyes. I have heard countless testimonies and miracles being done by the mercy of Christ but I have never actually experienced it. Therefore, I believe that faith is whatever it is believed to