I never violate my idea about the way things are. I always live in a way that reflects my mental map. I live at the mercy of my ideas about the way things really are. Always. And so do you. Understanding our convictions can help us get at the underlying difference between the two people reciting the Apostles’ Creed we talked about earlier in the chapter. What if the behavior of people who went to church and recited the Apostles’ Creed was watched by an all-knowing observer for a year? Then what