1. De-emotionalise the process. 

2. Do what scares you. 

3. Hang out with different people.

4. Expose yourself to different environments, cultures, ideas, thinking. 

5. Think for yourself. 

6. Work hard to over-ride your default setting.

via lifehack

1. We’re all largely driven, motivated, limited, empowered and controlled by our beliefs.

2. We have positive, negative and incidental beliefs.

3. Beliefs typically form over a long period of time. 

4. They often develop with no real effort, input or awareness on our part. We rarely make conscious decisions about them; they take root in spite of us.

5. They are the result of our influences and our experiences.

6. We know that in certain situations and circumstances, there exists a level of pressure to align our beliefs and thinking with the majority in order to be accepted, valued and respected as part of that group.

7. Having different beliefs to the majority, or changing your beliefs won’t always be well received. 

8. Quite often we adopt the beliefs of others. 

9. I like the idea of being part of a group where identical beliefs and consensual thinking is not a pre-requisite for membership. 

10. We should re-examine, question and test our beliefs to determine whether they empower us or limit us.

11. Just because you’ve believed something for a long time doesn’t mean it’s right.

12. We have an emotional attachment to some beliefs and the thought of letting go of them scares the crap out of us. 

13. In an effort to align our beliefs, thinking and behaviour with the group, we often lose US.