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What if emotion trumped truth?I know it’s a radical thing to ask, but bear with me. What if conventional wisdom tended to be more conventional than wise?What if people were by nature emotional creatures, prone to self-validating and unreal beliefs?What if we lived in a world where there was so much communication and information, that no human had the time to master all worldly knowledge – that issues were complex and confusing? And what if that world tended to communicate in the language of emotion rather than reality, in urban legend over fact, symbolism over substance, or superstition over science to fill in the gaps in knowledge? Or what if there were politicians and companies actually working hard to focus our attention, consciously or subconsciously, on the “threats” they wanted us to perceive rather than on reality, so they could make more money, have more power, or feel more purpose in their own lives? Well guess what! That is the world we live in. Including some hard work already done by some fascinating and wonderful people, Truth-Driven ThinkingSM will reveal that you and I are just as prone to human, emotion-driven tendencies as the next guy or gal, including scientists, engineers, politicians and supposedly “critical thinkers.” I’ll argue that we are not only emotion-driven thinkers by nature, but that we could dramatically improve ourselves and our health, our businesses, careers, and certainly our nation and world, if we could only do a tiny little bit better at putting truth up on a pedestal. Not your truth. Not my truth. But the real, elusive, “we-will-never-know-it-in-our-lifetime, but-it’s-true-around-the-universe” kind of truth. So I invite you to join me in one of the many ways we can together take a look at human emotion and the roll it plays in each of us, no matter how immune we think we are. With Truth-Driven ThinkingSM, we examine a number of examples and case studies of human, emotion-driven reasoning to both get a chuckle or two, sometimes at our own expense, and more importantly to clearly illustrate this point of human fallibility. As we'll prove, conventional wisdom can often be more conventional than wise. There is an old saying that "It's not what you know," that will get you in trouble, it's what you know that isn't so." What things have you believed in that turned out not to be true? And why did you believe in them?
And more importantly, why did you believe? It is an important question for all of us to understand, and in our Truth-Driven ThinkingSM programs we explore a number of reasons:
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