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You Do Not Go Out Into The Street In Your Underwear, Although Usually You Are Wearing Underwear. The Underwear Is Not Visible But It Is There All The Time. It Is The Same With Concepts. They Are There. They Underlie Practical Things We Do- Even When We Are Not Conscious Of Them.

Dealing With Complexity Is An Inefficient And Unnecessary Waste Of Time, Attention And Mental Energy. There Is Never Any Justification For Things Being Complex When They Could Be Simple.

(...) Being Right All The Time Acquires A Huge Importance In Education, And There Is This Terror Of Being Wrong. The Ego Is So Tied To Being Right That Later On In Life You Are Reluctant To Accept That You Are Ever Wrong, Because You Are Defending Not The Idea But Your Self-esteem. (...) This Terror Of Being Wrong Means That People Have Enormous Difficulties In Changing Ideas.

You Cannot Dig A Hole In A Different Place By Digging The Same Hole Deeper

What The Joke Displays Is A Switch In Perception. This Is Important In Changing The Way We Think.