Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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