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Question What You Know Is True

The Recovering Engineer

I do think he wanted people in the audience to rethink what they “knew” to be true so that they could learn something new. He threw out an extreme statement about football that made me question my beliefs so that I began to think differently about time management and productivity. That was, in fact, his real objective.

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Why I Don't Want to Be a Tolerant Person | Guy Harris: The.

The Recovering Engineer

On the day that my daughter’s teacher heard Wiesel speak, another member of the audience asked how he could be so tolerant of other people after all of the hardships he had endured. In his brief comment on the topic, he referenced a talk he once heard by Elie Wiesel.