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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas #866981 added November 24, 2015 at 2:40pm
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Selectively Lazy Reasoning
Prompt: What cognitive scientist Emmanuel Trouche and his colleagues call "the selective laziness of reasoning" is this: “You are more likely to use sound reasoning if you could hear your own thoughts coming from someone else.”
What do you think about this? Does this shine a light on why we make bad choices sometimes?
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This might make sense only after or around the time we make or we are about to make bad choices. We might think, at such a time, why anyone else didn’t think of alerting us to the negatives or important questions regarding the matter, to which we already knew the correct answers deep down inside but disregarded.
In other words, if the reasoning we swept under the carpet could be voiced my someone else as validation, we might have made better decisions, or if what crossed our minds but we disregarded could be offered to us as someone else’s thought, we might have acted more to our own advantage.
I know a tiny bit about how cognitive scientists come to their conclusions. As to Emmanuel Trouche is a scholar in CNRS, Université de Lyon, Laboratoire Cerveau Language et Cognition. There’s an article for it here:
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/282732160_The_Selective_Laziness_of_Reas...
Most of the studies in this lab are conducted mostly as groups versus individuals and the results arrived, like the above quote, are mostly arguments and, in my opinion, not true results. So anything they come up with is open to discussion. 
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