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"Extensive research has shown that people tend to lead either from their head or their heart. Unless we make a conscious choice to achieve the appropriate balance, we tend to do what comes naturally and solve the problem from within our comfort zone" (from the Decision Education Foundation) Those of us on...

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How do we know what we know? If you grew up like me you were brought up in a culture based on a dualist metaphysics, one that asserts that there is an objective reality outside of ourselves (whatever "we" are) and that we know about it indirectly through our senses and conscious reasoning.  This is the...

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George Lakoff wrote an interesting piece on FiveThirtyEight.com yesterday called The Obama Code.  I will focus on one of the sections in particular because it articulates something I've suspected for a while, but I've never heard anyone else give credence to the notion.  Which is that one of the...

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