One of my recent articles on Medium. Here's a sample:
If you want to know what someone believes, don’t ask them what they believe. Ask them where they spend their time, energy, and money.
Because the things that we genuinely believe are things we act on.
The
result is that over time our deepest beliefs wind up taking on concrete
forms. One pebble at a time, we build mounds and walls. One small
decision after another adds on to long history of similar decisions.
And soon the landscape around us becomes the outward form of our inward beliefs.