Hack #64: Cultivate the Naive Mind

It has been said that the human computers in Frank Herbert's Dune novels cultivated "the naive mind" to process information without bias. The guidelines of the Wikipedia neutral point of view (NPOV) are a tested way of cultivating the naive mind in your thought and communication.

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Links

• AGHOST (Amateur Ghost Hunters Of Seattle/Tacoma): http://www.aghost.us
• "Wikipedia: Neutral point of view": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npov
• "Wikipedia: NPOV tutorial": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_tutorial
• What can go wrong without NPOV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars_ever

Errata

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Hack Author

Ron Hale-Evans

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This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.