This is http://www.essayz.com/a9112181.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ADDICTIVE ATTITUDE ASSUME LEAD REASON CREATIVITY 911218 Addictive attitudes and assumptions often lead our reasoning and suppress our creative perceptions. Thus conclusions which are only apparently coherent and highly respectable in the eyes of defensive insecure people, are often the eventual fruits of scholarly efforts. Defensive insecure people cannot see the ways in which their addictive attitudes and assumptions often lead their reasoning, and often suppress creative perceptions. Their processes of rationalization do not lead them to detect the processes of suppression of creative perceptions. Their processes of rationalization deal only with what did not get repressed, the processes do not seek to discover what is lacking because of suppression. Addictive attitudes and assumptions usually lead people who embody them to avoid the discovery of the fact that they are persons who embody addictive attitudes and assumptions. They as people assume that their technical sophistication is a sign of transcendence and superiority; because of their ability to manipulate and to appear to be in control. They are unable to perceive their disintegrative values and ideals in the light of the associated tragic consequences which alienate people from self and others. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================