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On the pages of this online magazine we will bring you <i>ideas to build your life on</i>. It was English essayist Samuel Johnson who suggested that most people do not need to be taught, they need only to be reminded. There is very little in the understanding of human behavior that <i>is</i> new. More than anything else we hope these pages will stir you to action.</font></td></tr></table> 83<br><br><img src="images/mainfeature.gif" width="367" height="17" border="0" alt="Featured" hspace="2"><br><br> 84<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><img src="images/blank.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt="character"></td><td><div class=nav> 85<font face=arial,helvetica size=2><a href="persistence_of_vision.html"><b>The Persistence of Vision</b></a><br>It is not a question of intelligence, but rather one of our perception of the world around us. We see and hear things in a variable way, and certainly differently from one another, because only the hardware is common to all of us. We can even become blind or deaf when confronted with some situations that will be glaringly or blaringly evident to others. It is therefore hardly surprising that, from time to time, we do get stuck. Stuck in the same old thinking. 86 87<br><br><a href="wisdom2.html"><b>Wisdom: The Interval Between the Notes</b></a><br>Opinions come naturally to us. Wisdom does not. Opinions are common. Wisdom is not. Given such clear-cut differences, it seems ironic that opinions should so often be mistaken for wisdom. Time and information have become our enemies. Without the time to think about the onslaught of information that is paraded before us each day, we have become, by and large, what social psych
87ologists call cognitive misers, preferring emotional reactions and one-dimensional opinions to considered examination. While these often necessary mental shortcuts can help us to reduce our complex world into something more manageable, they can create enormous errors in thought and behavior. These errors can have monumental consequences not only in our own lives but in the collective lives of organizations, communities and nations. 88<br><br></font></div></td></tr></table> 89</TD> 90 91<TD width=20><img src="images/blank.gif" width="20" height="1" border="0" alt="character"></TD> 92 93<TD width=281><br> 94<table border="0"width="281"cellpadding="5"cellspacing="0"><tr><td><img src="images/churchill2.jpg" width="80" height="190"border="0"alt="Churchill"></td><td valign=top><img src="images/ideahead.gif" width="170" height="36" border="0" alt="Ideas to Build Your Life On"><br><br><font face=verdana,arial,helvetica size=1>Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.<br><br><div align=right><b> <i>Sir Winston Churchill</i></b><br>(1874-1965)</div></font></td><td><img src="images/blank.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="character"></td></tr> 95<tr><td><img src="images/blank.gif" width="1" height="60" border="0" alt="wisdom"></td></tr> 96<tr><td><img src="images/lichtenberg.jpg" width="80" height="190" border="0" alt="Lichenberg"></td><td valign=top><img src="images/ideahead.gif" width="170" height="36" border="0" alt="Ideas to Build Your Life On"><br><br><font face=verdana,arial,helvetica size=1>Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.<br><br><div align=right><b> <i>Georg Christoph Lichenberg</i></b><br>(1742-1799)</div></font></td><td><img src="images/blank.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="character"></td></tr></table></TD></TR></TABLE> 97 98</TD></TR></TABLE> 99 100<TABLE width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><TR><TD align=right><table width=100% border=0 cellpadding=10><tr><td align=right><br> 101<br><img src="images/dots-horizontal.gif" width="376" height="1" border="0" alt="wisdom"><br><font face=verdana,arial,helvetica size=1>
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