Part I. Personal Traps: Individual Biases and Blocks to Seeing And Understanding Chage
You learn from the time you are born, or perhaps even before. You learn the vocabulary that shapes your thinking, the customs of your culture, the beliefs of your caregivers, and the aesthetics that delight or repel you. Going through school, you learn history the way your teachers and texts present it, you learn about the physical world based on your society's acceptance or rejection of theories and discoveries, and you learn to express yourself in a prescribed manner to succeed in your classes and fit in with your peers.
The older you get, and the more knowledge you acquire, the more mental baggage that gets loaded into your consciousness. That consciousness ...
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