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Reasoning

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Once a practice has become established, it can be perpetuated, even if there is no reason for it.

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Reasoning by metaphor is an ingenious technique that allows us to remedy our weaknesses by capitalizing on our strengths – using things we can visualize to think, talk, and reason about things we can’t.

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…research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing.

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The single biggest reason why people miss out on life-changing opportunities is that they aren’t looking for them.

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Behavioral scientists have shown that cognitive overload is a major theme in the rejection of change. Cognitive reasoning is finite and easily depleted.

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Analogical thinking takes the new and makes it familiar, or takes the familiar and puts it in a new light, and allows humans to reason through problems they have never seen in unfamiliar contexts.

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