Cognitive dissonance refers to the discomfort of holding conflicting beliefs or ideas. People are motivated to reduce dissonance by changing beliefs, adding new ones, or lessening the importance of conflicting elements. The document discusses seeing things from a customer's perspective and understanding their journey from initial awareness of a product or service through satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy. It advises being objective, meeting customers where they are, understanding what they seek, managing expectations set by competitors, and documenting insights.
3. Cognitive Dissonance
is the discomfort experienced when simultaneously holding two or
more conflicting cognitions: ideas, beliefs, values or emotional reactions.
In a state of dissonance, people may sometimes feel "disequilibrium":
frustration, hunger, dread, guilt, anger, embarrassment, anxiety, etc.
people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by
altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a
consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the
importance of any one of the dissonant elements.