Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Lost Art of Thinking #8: Recognize that you have personal prejudices

Rule #8: Recognize that you have personal prejudices

To speak plainly, to be guilty of prejudice is to act stupidly. The stupidity may, of course, take a variety of forms.

Reasoning itself is, in part, a painstaking and sometimes painful process of attempting to use the logical parts of the brain in a disinterested fashion, deliberately casting off-to the greatest possible extent-the restraints imposed by social conditioning.

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