Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Quote-O-Rama
P. 118
Nobody likes making mistakes
When self esteem is at stake, delicate unconscious forms of information and intelligence seem to be disabled or dismissed, and the way we act becomes clumsy and coarse. When w are less ‘on our best behaviour’. The glimmerings of knowledge from the undermind are more available to guide perception and action.
When we treat something as a ‘pure guess’ we do not feel responsible for it in the same way. We are freed to utter things that come to us ‘out of the blue’, because there is no apparent standard of correctness or success against which they, or we, will be judged.
P. 118