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It’s OK To Have Strong Opinions, But Try And Change Your Own Mind

10.31.2011 The life of the mind

Here’s a simple test to see if you are an intelligent being and not a robot or a mindless automaton: Take something that you have a strong opinion about and ask yourself, honestly, if you could be wrong. Intelligent, thinking beings challenge their own beliefs and ideas frequently. They take in new information. They sometimes […]

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You’re Probably Wrong About That

09.19.2011 Books and Literature

I spend a great deal of my day being wrong about things. How about you? You and I know a great many things. We know, we hope, how to do our jobs, how to get from point A to point B, how to survive from day to day. But there is a lot of our […]

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