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Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning by cjslep on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:58AM (#18909480)
Another concrete suggestion: read books you know you'll disagree with. It's really really hard, but great at honing critical thinking skills and forces one's self to acknowledge when the author has made a good point, and then reflect on why you still disagree with it.
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Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:40AM (#18910187)
> It's really really hard

How so? I find it interesting to see how people frame and rationalize ideas that I dislike or disagree with.

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Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning by cjslep on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:58AM (#18911120)
Maybe it's just me, but it takes a lot of effort to read stuff I disagree with than, say, a novel or a book whose major line of thinking matches mine.
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