I like to use following analogy. All your thoughts are uniquely yours, but were moulded, directly or otherwise, by the opinions of others. Now, from the moment you are born, you begin soaking information, building what we will refer to as a foundation. This foundation will serve as the basis on which all your other thoughts are built.

Think of it like the construction of a building. The first stage is clearing the ground, then laying a solid foundation. If a faulty base is built, it is likely to fail, causing the building to crumble. During our childhood, we will build and rebuild many such foundations, until one seems to align with their reality. Note that we have not one overarching foundation for many for each tenet of life.

Once our foundations have been established, it's time to set up the framework. The framework acts to support the building, and is tied closely to the foundation. The framework is a collection of supporting evidence, along with any other related ideas tied to your theory of how one particular aspect of life should be.

Once the framework has been built, the construction of the actual building can commence. On top of the established foundation you can build all your other theories, in detail. Once the building is complete, you add furniture, decorations etc. These decorations are further pieces of evidence to support your theories, and also represent the tidbits of information you gather from your day-to-day living.

Here's the fun part.

Life cannot be decomposed into isolated tenets; it is more than the sum of its parts. As a result, your daily interactions will draw upon more than one foundation. Which means bridges must be built between buildings. The more these bridges are used, the more you upgrade them to improve their structural integrity.

However, sometimes the bridges won't connect buildings perfectly, due to contradictions between two buildings. For example, when Einstein first proposed and developed quantum physics, it contradicted the long accepted and finely developed Newtonian physics. When this happens, the decorations are changed, and/or the building plans revised. Re-building the structure takes effort and time, which is why people don't like their stronger thoughts contradicted. They would rather shuffle around the furniture to temporarily align with reality again.

As you progress from childhood to your teens to adulthood, more and more pathways between buildings are built. These buildings integrate themselves tightly, forming a metropolis. Each building is reliant on every other building, not unlike society today, allowing them to specialise. We see this in many real life examples, where actions in one place may have severe repercussions in another.

Rebuilding parts of a structure is effortless compared to rebuilding the foundation, since to do that, you'd have to first destroy all bridges to that building, which affects every other building. For exactly this reason, people will do many things to protect their beliefs, regardless of all the evidence that contradicts them. People like to keep their accomplishments and achievements; facing a new reality would mean losing all said accomplishments. They will not be open to debate for fear that they have been wrong.

Despite their efforts to protect their beliefs, if the opposing reality is strong enough, the foundations, not just the building, will collapse. A belief system founded on lies is ultimately a weak system. Effort would need to be reinvested into evaluating and reconstructing the building, which manifests itself in headaches, heartbreak etc. I suspect many people who found TRP have experienced many of their foundations crushed and buildings topple.

In order to save time, resources and pain, many people will choose to only adapt their buildings slightly, desperately latching onto their old ideas. We see this in our beloved white knights and friendzoned manginas. They helplessly cling to the idea that their nice guy, "respectful" behaviours will eventually get the girl. (They will: beta bux)

An interesting side note is that even when you are wrong, as long as your frame is strong enough your reality will dominate. As an experiment, I have jokingly convinced many people a kilometre is longer than a mile. Of course, my frame would have been stronger had I been preceding from a place of truth. Life is a battle of realities. Everybody will be challenging yours, and the strongest frame wins.