Post Written By Eugene Morgan By our nature we’re always making distinctions. We live by our distinctions. We break up our day into morning, noon, afternoon and evening. We make distinctions between our left hand and our right hand. We break our town into north, south, east and west. We also link things together. We […]
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Hasty Generalizations Are Lies
Post Written By Eugene Morgan If we keep telling ourselves that we can’t do something because of our background, then it will continue to be true. We don’t have to believe in the self-defeating thoughts that keep us from doing what we want or wish to do. Most of those thoughts are hasty generalizations. Just […]
Remodel
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Over the years we have accumulated experiences. And over the years we have accumulated generalizations about those experiences. Generalizations can be helpful and they can be harmful. Generalizations are our filters we look through to make sense out of the world. But some of our generalizations can skew our perceptions […]
Biases Can Affect Our Behaviors
Post Written By Eugene Morgan First of all, no one is without biases. Biases imply that our decisions or opinions about something have already been formed. For example, when we are presented with a puzzle that eludes us, it will continue to elude us so long as we don’t ask the why, the when, the […]