8. Who taught you to think the way you think?

In this episode of The Dialog, Josh Craft and Nick Surface explore one of the most overlooked truths of modern life: you don’t see the world as it is, you see the world as you are. From subconscious programming to presuppositions, they unpack how your earliest experiences, cultural environment, and unexamined assumptions quietly shape how you think, respond, and interpret everything around you.

Drawing from NLP, Stoicism, cognitive behavioral therapy, neuroscience, and Scripture, they trace how humans form mental shortcuts: filters that feel like “truth” but are often inherited, emotional, or unchallenged. Josh and Nick discuss why adults struggle to question their beliefs, how different cultures expose our blind spots, and why intellectual humility is the foundation of personal transformation.

The conversation leads to a central question: Who taught you to think the way you think, and do you like the fruit of that thinking? Whether the topic is money, faith, identity, or truth itself, you can’t move toward what God says is true until you’re willing to admit that you might be wrong. This episode is an invitation to examine your map, locate where you actually are, and begin the journey toward truth with open hands and an open mind.


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