Rules for Mental Health

1. Feelings prove nothing.
2. One person's experience proves nothing.
3. The truth of an idea is not what convinces people. The utility of an idea is what convinces people, and the economics of an idea is what convinces people to convince people.
4. Curiosity didn't kill the cat, curiosity got the cat killed.
5. No one is straight. Everyone is bent, and some of us are crooked.
6. For every event, construct three separate explanations before you decide on them.
7. To be intelligent, construct at least 5 and include another that says none of the above.
8. Since we naturally avoid unpleasant information, seek it out. Read magazines which oppose your positions on issues, but remember the research on cognitive dissonance.
9. Since all individuals are biased, getting a random sample is a great way to counteract bias.
10. Since we are biased because of our limited experiences, having a wide background of experiences also counteracts bias.
11. Meaning is context dependent, since context can be infinitely extended, there is no final meaning.
12.Innocence is not the absence of experience. Innocence is the absence of second thought.
13. The mind is a muscle. The reason some people hate to think is the same reason other people hate to work out.