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Brian Miller's avatar

Joel,

This is a fine list (and a bit humbling) that I’ll need to bookmark and reread periodically. I typically find myself following the Dorothy Parker guideline, “This is a book not to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

Thanks as always for a thoughtful perspective,

Brian

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Wayne Stiles's avatar

What a helpful post, Joel. Thank you... Be a critical thinker without being a critical person. Your rules—especially with regard to recognizing our limitations—remind me of biblical book of Proverbs with its scores of verses about the person who refuses correction (Prov. 12:15; 15:5; 17:10; 26:12). Only a biblical fool takes no input because he thinks he has already arrived—and in a sad way, he has. He’ll go no further because his ego allows no progress.

Of course those verses aren't there to confirm our biases about the "others" who don't get it. They are there to make us ask questions of ourselves-- in our motives for reading and for every other source of information.

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