Re: [Harp-L] Re: Transparency

[Zack <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx>]

   You make a good point, and some people, even me, do that. I think if we
all just accepted that some of us don't like them or do we'd be fine, but it
always pushes someone's buttons when someone comments how they don't sound
natural.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:01 PM, JohnnieHarp <johnnieharp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >Terrific post by JR Ross
> >You're likely correct, JR. I probably could rephrase these things
> better...
>
> As a general observation, I suspect that most posters here tend to be
> competitive people with strong wills and opions.
>
> For us, it can be easy to get caught in what De Bono termed the
> "Intelligence Trap" where one becomes more focused on defending one's
> beliefs / position than on circling around issues and considering them
> from various perspectives; switching viewpointts in the process.
>
> " A highly intelligent person usually grows up with a sense of that
> intellectual superiority and needs to be seen to be ‘right’ and
> ‘clever’. Such a person is less willing to risk creative and
> constructive ideas, because such ideas may take a time to show their
> worth or to get accepted. Highly intelligent people are often
> attracted to the quick pay-off of negativity. If you attack someone
> else’s ideas or thinking, there can be an immediate achievement
> together with a useful sense of superiority. In intellectual terms
> attack is also cheap and easy because the attacker can always choose
> the frame of reference."
>
>


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