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Abstract

Nepali society is multilingual, culturally and ethnically diverse. It holds great potential for development and thought. However, the existing mental traps in society are creating obstacles to fulfilling those potentials. Mental entrapment is a problem in which people follow someone's words with complete faith, just like someone who runs after a crow without touching their own ears after hearing that it has ears. This forces people to live in illusion. This leads to individuals mistrusting their own abilities and pushing society towards inaction. This situation is not only due to individual thinking, but is the combined result of social structural discrimination, lack of education, historical oppression, and pessimistic social psychology. This type of social and personal thinking, ideas, or beliefs are instilled in individuals by society (Bourdieu, 1977).

This article is conducted using a qualitative research method, in which the creation, impact, and prevention of mental traps will be discussed based on various secondary sources, literature, case studies, informal conversations, and individual experiences. This research focuses on how negative thinking hinders the development process and how changing such thinking can give new dynamism to society. In conclusion, there is a need to end the mental trap, and for that, everyone needs to emphasize inclusive policies, social justice, education, and positive discourse.

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